Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] mlterm doesn't work with xkb?

[Beni C. <cb...@te...>]

On 2003-01-06, MINAMI Hirokazu wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 23:55:48 +0200 (IST)
> Beni Cherniavsky <cb...@te...> wrote:
>
> > On 2003-01-05, MINAMI Hirokazu wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 01:03:59 +0200 (IST)
> > > Beni Cherniavsky <cb...@te...> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I don't seem to get mlterm to read hebrew characters from my keyboard.I
> > > > don't run any XIM servers, just plain xkb.xterm in utf-8 mode works
> > > > perfectly.I have PC with RedHat 8.0 (XFree86 4.*) - my locale is
> > > > en_US.utf-8.Display andcut/paste of hebrew work fine (including bidi).
> > >
> > > Do you have a reason not to use XIM?
> > >
> > Never thought I have a reason to use it.After all, xkb solves the issue
> > for all programs, why do I need to run some special server then?
>
> As youhave mentioned that XOpenIM was never called,
> I'm assuming that you are explicitly disabling XIM.
> Is this correct?
>
> Without XIM, mlterm cannot can only use XLookupString() to convert keysyms.
> As XLookupString only supports Latin-1 and Hebrew is notcovered by Latin-1,
> I don't think you can input hebrew without using X(mb|utf8)LookupString.
> Those functions require IC(input context) and to call XCreateIC(),
> we need valid XIM.
>
Yes, this is more or less what I figured out.  The IC pointer is
definitely NULL (but I'm not 100% sure that OpenXIM wasn't executed, I
only tried to step around there in the debugger once) so it can't work.
So I need to open some "default" XIM (when I said I use no XIM I meant
that I don't excplicitly run XIM servers; I have very little knowledge of
XIM internals).  I didn't explicitly disable XIM however; I also tried to
excplicitly enable -X and/or -i, with no effect.

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Beni Cherniavsky <cb...@tx...>