Re: Re: chinese input method collided with gnumeric

[Yukihiro Nakai <ynakai redhat com>]

Hi,

> On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:18:03AM +0800, zuowei wrote:
> > Dear Jody,
> >
> >    I contacted with the chinese input method author,and he told me
> >    how to change the enable key of it,then I did it successful and
> >    change default enable key to ctrl+shift using the method he
> >    told me.I can use the chinese input method now.
>
> Its good to know that it is possible.

It's not Gnumeric fault but GTK+'s.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90082

GTK+2 passes key events to GTK+2 widgets before immodule,
so immodule cannot get indispensable key combination to input.
This effects not only XIM module but also all immodule, and all
languages.

>  
> >    In fact,all chinese input method's default enable key is
> >    ctrl+space,I hoped that gnumeric develop team can consider this
> >    problem,and adjust the accelerator of gnumeric,or like what's
> >    you said,the accelerator can be editable.  All people using
> >    chinese input method will be glad to see that.
> Do you have access to a chinese version of MS Excel ?  I'd be
> interested to know what they do.  Gnumeric did not choose that
> accelerator itself.  There were bug reports from MS Excel users
> requesting it for compatibility.

I think there is some confution about this. MS-IME assigns different
key combo to start CJK input than that are used in CJK XIM servers.
For example, Japanese MS-IME assigns Alt+Kanji(this key is at backquote
key in English qwerty keyboard) but Japanese kinput2 assigns
Shift+Space, and ATOK12, a Japanese popular commercial input method
do Ctrl+Space. MS-IME seems to keep some key combo policy among
languages, but XIM key combos are different by XIM servers, by
languages, even by distros. Oh no-

-- 
Yukihiro Nakai <ynakai redhat com>