Does cygwin support xim?

[Kensuke Matsuzaki]

Hi,

>>I have ported a Vietnamese keyboard application from
>>linux to cygwin, but it can't run as I want. When it
>>ran, it warned that " Cannot load either en_US.UTF-8
>>or vi_VN.UTF-8 lo. To use this program you must have
>>one of these locales installed". Despite it ran but it
>>didn't have any effect on keyboard.
>>
>>I want to ask you that "Is cygwin/x support xim?".

At least there are some xim server for Japanese,
kinput:
http://www.on.cs.keio.ac.jp/~maru/cygwin-xfree-jp-supplement/
imeproxy:
http://sourceforge.jp/projects/imeproxy/

Also I posted xim server which uses Windows IME.
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-01/msg00066.html
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-01/msg00067.html


> I'm not sure but the last statements I heard told there are only 
> very few locales supported in cygwin.
> 
> Maybe you should try using the X11 locale support in the application.
> Use -DX_LOCALE when compiling and see /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xlocale.h

Cygwin's locale support is limited, so X is compiled with X Locale.
There are following lines in cygwin.cf
#define StandardDefines -D__i386__ -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -DX_LOCALE \
                         -D_X86_ -D__CYGWIN__ -D_XOPEN_SOURCE ...
So, if use Imakefile, imake adds -DX_LOCALE.

I can find vi_VN.tcvn and vi_VN.viscii in xc/nls, but not find 
vi_VN.UTF-8 though. I don't know about Vietnamese locale well,
but maybe someone have to write vi_VN.UTF-8.

zakki.
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