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Revision as of 08:39, 15 April 2005
Internationalisation (or localisation) touches:
- Input - how a user writes a text
- Presentation (or output) - how a text is presented to the user
- Aids - writing aids and processing mechanisms with and without user interaction
- Localisation of user interface
Related informations
Input method standards:
- XIM Old documentation on XIM
- IIIMF
- UIM
- kinput2
Output:
- vertical text layout
- bidi text layout
- opentype support
- CSS3 Text Module
Requirements
Output:
- NSTextView
- Typesetters
- Opentype supports
- Word hyphenation
- Word segmentation
Input:
- NSTextInput protocol
- NSInputManager
Aid:
- Spell-checking NSSpellChecker
Status
I'm trying to form a gnustep-i18n team and list all relevant subjects. If you are experienced in this field, please help.
FIXME
- what input method(s) GNUstep currently uses and for what backend? How?
Correct me if I were wrong. Currently we use XIM that only available in back-x11. Many input systems, eg. IIIMF, kinput2 have their own XIM bridges. Do we have those pop-up helpers with XIM yet?
- what output method(s) is used? How? Why?
- what aids are available? how they are backed? (for example, what spellchecking backend is used and how