Technical data

None applies when an input server rejects all input styles supported by
the application.
In the CDE, the appropriate input server automatically starts when you
select the session language. See Section 3.3 for restrictions that may require
you to start an input server manually. For
dxim, keep in mind that you must
stop any active input server process before starting dxim.
For programming information on how to specify input styles and establish
a priority order for them, see the Writing Software for the International
Market manual.
2.2 Determining the Keyboard Input Mode Switch State
Asian writing systems include thousands of ideographs, but Asian keyboards
include keys for only a small number of these characters. For Asian
languages, you use an input method (incorporating control-key sequences,
keypad-key sequences, or options in a workstation application) to convert
one or more characters that you can input directly from the keyboard to
other kinds of characters. Section 2.1 and the following reference pages
discuss input methods for Asian languages: dxim
(1X), dxhanziim(1X),
dxhanyuim
(1X), dxhangulim
(1X), dxjim(1X), and Thai
(5).
If your keyboard has a mode-switch LED (light-emitting diode), it is turned
on or off, depending on whether you last toggled the special input mode
on or off.
If you are using a workstation and your language is set to an Asian
language, you can display the mode-switch LED on the screen by invoking
the Keyboard Indicator application with the -map option, as follows:
% /usr/bin/X11/kb_indicator -map &
The -map option starts a Motif application that emulates a mode-switch
LED. The application window contains one button, which is displayed as on
or off, corresponding to the input mode state. If input mode switching is
supported for your current language setting, you can click on this button
to toggle in and out of input mode.
You can have only one Keyboard Indicator application running during your
session. To stop the application, press Ctrl/c in the window from which
you started the application or enter the following kill command (where
process_id is the application’s process ID):
% kill -INT process_id
If the Keyboard Indicator application is stopped by any other means, you
must erase the server status for the application so that it can be restarted
Using Asian Input Methods and Terminal Drivers 2–5