[m17n-lib:00387] Re: [Scim-devel] How to check surrounding text is supported or not?

[TAKAHASHI Naoto <ntakahas@xxxxxxxx>]

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.

> 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.

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