The Fedora Project is planning to use the open source IIIMF project developed by the OpenI18N Input Method Subgroup in the upcoming release of Fedora Core 2. We would like to extend an invitation at this time to East Asian users in particular to help test a preliminary packaging of IIIMF for Fedora Core and provide us with feedback, so we can help improve it and ensure that the Input Methods will be easier, more efficient and pleasant to use.
Intranet/Internet Input Method Framework (IIIMF) is the next generation Input Method Framework set to replace the legacy X Window System Input Method (XIM) used by existing Input Methods such as chinput, xcin, kinput2, ami and many others. As the technology is still in its infancy, wider testing effort by the community is needed to expediate the maturity of the technology.
The IIIMF server loads Language Engines (LE) dynamically at runtime as requested by clients. In this first round of testing, four LEs are available:
- iiimf-le-inpinyin for Simplified Chinese (zh_CN.UTF-8)
- iiimf-le-xcin for Traditional Chinese (zh_TW.UTF-8)
- iiimf-le-canna for Japanese (ja_JP.UTF-8)
- iiimf-le-hangul for Korean (ko_KR.UTF-8)
If you wish to participate in this first round of testing, a Testing Guide is now available at http://apac.redhat.com/iiimftest/testing-guide2/. It will give you the necessary information to set up IIIMF and to use the LE specific to your locale. The Testing Guide from the previous round can be found at http://apac.redhat.com/iiimftest/testing-guide1/.
Download a copy of Testing Guide from the following: http://apacredhat.com/iiimftest/files/TestguideFC2T2-revised.pdf
Download IIIMF packages from the following:
- RPM/SRPM
http://apac.redhat.com/iiimftest/files- yum/apt enabled repository:
http://iiimf.fedora.us/
Please read http://apac.redhat.com/iiimftest/testing-guide2 for details on using and testing IIIMF.
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Thanks from the Fedora i18n Team!