From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 11:39:03 -0400 From: Reed Wade wade@cs.utk.edu Subject: Japanese input Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2aaa238c-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19951004153903.FmgA9P2_Ffe1hIsi4YhQ8yBEzWKpchBy3pDUqX2A5dA@z> >>To port XXXXX Japanese input method to Plan 9 is not a nifty >>idea. Some new and simple method can be designed in Plan 9's way. >>Sorry, not a precise plan for now. > >I disagree. The implementation method may be novel but the >input method itself should be one Japanese users are familiar >and at least comfortable with. Inventing a new one would be >like requiring Plan 9 terminals for English speakers to have >non-standard placement of the letters on their keyboards. > >-rob I'd disagree with that analogy. Japanese input using a standard keyboard is contortious and kludgy enough that it's worthwhile to look at doing it differently--in a plan9 sort of way. Plan9 user interactions are a bit different from the usual X+unix interactions. This has been valuable. I expect there may be value in looking at Japanese input in the same light and for many of the same reasons. -reed ----- University of Tennessee, Knoxville Dept of Computer Science Netlib Development Group 'Dust--is round off error.' says geek wade@cs.utk.edu --