[Localization] Status on SCIM

[Jim Gettys]

Sayamindu,

I still see no compelling reason to convert the existing layouts to
scim, at least in the short term.  It may certainly be best for future
keyboards to do it "the new way".

What am I missing?
                           - Jim


On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 17:48 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> Hello,
> During this week, I poked SCIM a bit more, especially on the topic of
> migrating our existing layouts to the framework. It looks like the
> m17n IMEngine would be the best way to go forward at this stage for
> our existing layouts (though I need to check a bit more on the
> dependencies it will be pulling in). I'll try to come up a (semi)
> automate way to migrate our XKB symbol files to the m17n .mim format
> by next week.
> Thanks,
> Sayamindu
> 
> 
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Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org>
One Laptop Per Child