Technical data

2. Click on the appropriate radio button to choose a preediting style.
3. Click on OK.
For some of the input styles selected in an application, the preediting and
status windows are not redrawn correctly if the application window is hidden
by other windows. To correct this problem, click on the application window
to bring it to the foreground (in focus).
The operating system provides input servers for traditional and simplified
Chinese (Hanyu and Hanzi respectively), Japanese, and Korean. Each
input server provides you with one or more input methods appropriate for
variations within each language. For example, the simplified Chinese Input
Server provides input methods for these input styles: 5-Stroke, 5-Shape,
Pin-Yin, Symbol, Telex code, Qu-Wei, and Intelligent ABC.
An input server runs as an independent process and communicates with
an application to handle input operations. You can run the input server
remotely or locally. After you start the input server and activate an input
method, any internationalized Motif application that supports the selected
input method can communicate with the input server.
Ordinarily, you must start the application after you start the input server.
However, if the application contains an XmText or XmTextField widget
with the Reconnectable resource set to True, the application can connect
with the input server regardless of which one starts first.
You can start an individual input server from the command line or, for
non-Japanese Asian languages, you can use the dxim Input Server. The
dxim Input Server is a menu-oriented server that supports Korean,
traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, and Phrase input methods under a
single protocol and allows you to switch from one input method engine to
another from the same or different locales.
When a client application connects to dxim and you use the keyboard to enter
characters, the dxim Input Server converts the character data and sends it
to the application. The conversion is English to an Asian language variant
using traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, or Korean Input Method
server engines (dxhanyuim, dxhanziim, and dxhangulim, respectively).
dxim selects an input method based on the client’s locale and the input
method server engines (called classes) and methods that you have activated.
The dxim Input Server supports only Off-the-Spot and Root Window
preediting styles. Also, the dxim Phrase input is different from the operating
system Phrase Utility. While the dxim Phrase Input Server method allows
you to store characters and phrases in a manner similar to the operating
system Phrase Utility, dxim does not support the Phrase Utility phrase
database.
Using Asian Input Methods and Terminal Drivers 2–3