How to get started

[Jan <jandersen striva com>]

This is what ought to have been a simple question, but unfortunately
isn't; not when you've never tried before.

I want to write an X application that accepts input from an XIM server
and displays in any font that I can come by, loosely speaking. It would
seem that output goes through Pango and I suppose I can see how to use
it if I look in the documentation. But how am I supposed to connect to
an input server? It would be very nice if there were a simple
introduction to i18n programming - not necessarily anything fancy, just
enough to get people pointed in the right direction and give them a
basic understanding of the what, why and how of it.

So, where do I begin?

/jan