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From: Jareth Hein <jhod@po.iijnet.or.jp>
Organization: Sonic Software Planning, Tokyo
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To: Itay Gat <itay@cs.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: mule problem with xemacs-20.0-b31, on IRIX 5.3
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Itay Gat wrote:
> 
> On Dec 16,  1:40am, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> > Subject: mule problem with xemacs-20.0-b31, on IRIX 5.3
> > >>>>> "Itay" == Itay Gat <itay@cs.huji.ac.il> writes:
> >
> > Itay> BUT when I try running it to work with Multi-Language it fails. I'm
> trying to
> > Itay> do that in the following manner:
> > Itay> load the quail library, and set the quail package using
> quail-select-package.
> > Itay> As a response for the selection command I'm getting the list of all
> packages,
> > Itay> but they refuse to be loaded, and I get the common error message:
> > Itay> "Cannot open load file: quail/xxxx" (xxxx = ethio e.g.)
> >
> > Itay> What have I done wrong ??
> >
> > quail hasn't been ported to XEmacs yet.  There is some fragmentary
> > code, but it's not working yet.   XIM and canna are supported for
> > composed input.
> >
> > Perhaps you'd like to port quail?
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >-- End of excerpt from Martin Buchholz
> 
> 1. How can I use the canna and XIM - where can I read about it. In previous
> mule
>         version I've used the quail successfully, but I don't know much about
>         the tools you've mentioned. For what languages is this tool suitable ??
> 2. Is there any time-table for the installing of quail ?? Is the official
> release going to include the quail (or just the other tools).
> 
> Itay

canna is a conversion system for Japanese only. XIM is the Xlib
implementaion of 'Input Managers', which means that if your X
environment includes support for inputting characters/glyphs into
X-based software, XEmacs/Mule can use it too. XEmacs/Mule is still quite
young, code-wise, and is quite different from MULE 2.3 in terms of
implementation and coding design. Therefore, almost all packages that
require MULE support will have to be ported (rewritten to work with) to
work with XEmacs/Mule. Eventually, quail will be included in the
release, but at the moment (as far as I know) no one is working on the
port. If quail support is really important to you, maybe you should
attempt to do the porting? I'm sure many of us here would be happy to
answer your questions should you wish to do so.

Good Luck!

--Jareth Hein

