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Hi,

When I launch xterm &, I got the following message in one Sun box:

input method doesn't support my preedit type

I don't have a clue what is wrong. where should I look into? thanks

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Quote:>When I launch xterm &, I got the following message in one Sun box:

>input method doesn't support my preedit type

>I don't have a clue what is wrong. where should I look into? thanks

That looked like a strange enough message that I wondered what
it could be coming from.  By UTSL(*) methodology, I find that
"input method" is "an X11R6 feature which deals with translation
of composite characters".

Further casual reading of the source (I'm not so curious as
to spend time actually studying it carefully) suggests that
you might try setting the "openIm" resource to "false":
   xterm -xrm 'XTerm*openIm: False'
If that helps, and you don't need the composite character
support, add that resource to your .Xresources file.

                --Ken Pizzini

(*) It's be quite some time since I've seen this usenet acronym
    used, so I figured I probably need to explain: UTSL stands
    for "Use The Source, Luke" (which is a somewhat date joke,
    even if there is a new wave of interest in the Star Wars
    movies).

Did someone build xterm from Thomas*ey's XFree86 source?  If this is
the case, I found that I had to build it using the "--disable-i18n" configure
option, to avoid seeing the input method (localization) warnings at runtime.

If that host indeed has this type of xterm, you can use "xterm -version"
to query the exact version that was built.

Larry C.

that's one possibility - but I've also seen a few reports that are against
the regular X11R6.3 code which has support for input method.  For either,
Ken Pizzini's comment about setting the openIm resource should work.

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I though it was hopeless to get an answer, :-)... Yeah, it really
works. Thanks, ken, for using the UTSL methodology to find me the
answer.

To Larry, my "xterm -version" shows "XFree86 3.9.16b(118)" -- you
are right. Thanks for sharing your experience on that.

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