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input methods which do not use xim

an advantage of xim is, that the user interface to input japanese, chinese or korean is the same in all applications which support xim. other methods of inputting these languages are usually application dependent, for example the native support in xemacs for the japanese conversion backends canna or wnn has a unique user interface which works like this only in xemacs. but input using xim works exactly the same way in xemacs as it does in all other applications with xim support, for example netscape or kterm.

nevertheless one may want to use an input method which does not use xim, usually because one of the following reasons:



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2005-03-09