I18n

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 information

Input method standards and implementations:

• X11 Input Method (XIM) system (old documentation)
• Internet/Intranet Input Method Framework (IIIMF) is a new input management system from the same people who brought you XIM (project information)
• UIM is an embeddable C library providing input methods and is apparently widely ported (UIM wiki)
• kinput2 is a Japanese input server for XIM (homepage)

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

The spellchecker uses libaspell for its backend