[m17n-lib:00388] Re: [Scim-devel] How to check surrounding textis supported or not?

[Jens Petersen <petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

TAKAHASHI Naoto wrote:
> Jens Petersen writes:
>
> > I was wondering if m17n-lib could somehow handle the fallback to 
> > preedit rather than having to implement two sets of input logic in the 
> > input map (one for surrounding text and one for without).  For example 
>
> Having two sets of input logic may seem redundant, but perhaps it is
> inevitable.

Yes probably, I am afraid so.  Well once Qt also supports 
surrounding-text it should lighten the problem.

> > si-wijesekera.mim currently still assumes surrounding text and so 
> > doesn't work in KDE or XIM apps.  
>
> I have written a preedit version of si-wijesekera recently.  It is now
> being tested by Sinhala users in Sri Lanka.  The preedit version and
> the surrounding text version use different algorithms to get the same
> result.

Oh great!  Could post it here too please or commit it to cvs say? :) 
I would also like to test it.

Thanks, Jens