[indiana-discuss] Input Manager gone awry

[Sebastien Roy]

On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 09:46 -0700, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> > >  As far as I can remember, Ctrl-space has been the
> > "universal" default for activating IM.  Unless we are
> > Microsoft, I doubt we could unilaterally change this.
> >  :-)
> > Even if it is, I have never had this issue in
> > Windows. So I suspect
> > something could be made better here.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Shawn Walker
> > 
> 
> IM is automatically activated if you choose a unicode locale (as in most
> mainstream Linux distros).  Perhaps we could change this, but make it very
> easy to be activated?

Strangely, if I disable the switcher altogether, I can't use the compose
key on my keyboard at all to compose special characters even though I'm
in a UTF-8 locale that supports them in its default character set.  I
can't tell if this is a bug, or another interesting "feature".

In any case, your suggestion is in-line with the suggestion I made in
6612087, but slightly different.  I suggested not having a hotkey for
"latin mode" by default.  People who need to switch often between these
modes can create a hotkey for it in the input switcher preferences.

-Seb