Re: How to get started

[Noah Levitt <nlevitt columbia edu>]

Gtk+ already supports XIM; you don't have to do anything
special. In a textview or editable, right click, and in the
popup menu choose Input Methods/X Input Method.

Noah

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:23:13 +0100, Jan wrote:
> 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