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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml vs Ada and/or GUI options

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 02:49:27PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> How is Chinese text a problem? 

Because you want to interface to the input-method-du-jour of the
platform you're running on, eg. ibus on modern Linux or who knows what
on old Linux / Windows / OS X.

Now I didn't say anything was impossible -- clearly people have
written toolkits from scratch on many occasions including both me[*]
and you -- just that it's a large amount of boring grind work to deal
with all the different use cases.

Rich.

[*] Mine didn't deal with Asian language input.  It didn't even use
events (everything was polled).  And it only worked on one specific
graphics card which it talked to via a driver which I'd also written!
And it was largely written in 68k asm.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat