[Fedora-i18n-list] IIIMF Reseach/Whitepaper

[Lawrence]

Dear all IIIMF-enthusiast,
I am currently in the process of preparing my thesis/whitepaper on
IIIMF. As this is a research paper, I cannot just only include my own
thoughts and experience about IIIMF, it requires me to gather and
analyse data from experienced users like yourself and determine whether
it matches my hypothesis.

Hence, I need help from all of you by responding to a few simple
scenario on how XIM and IIIMF handle each of the situation. There is no
right and wrong answer to the scenarios. If you think XIM or IIIMF is
better in a particular scenario, briefly justify your thought and I
think this will led to very interesting discussion in the mailing list.

Thanks for taking time to complete the survey and I look forward to your
reply.


Regards,
Lawrence

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Scenario 1
A junior programmer has limited understanding of the X11 Server but wish
to implement an Input Method for his native language.

Which architecture/framework would be recommend to the programmer? 
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using XIM Architecture and
IIIMF?

Scenario 2
A marketing co-coordinator is in the process of creating a poster for an
International event. The poster would have wordings of different
languages.

How does the XIM Architecture and IIIMF handle this? 
What are the implications of using XIM and IIIMF?


Scenario 3
In the event where there is a need to modify a legacy document which is
non-Unicode encoded.

How does the Input Method implemented using XIM Architecture and IIIMF
handle this situation?


Scenario 4
A web developer has produced a machine translation application that
translates between various of the many dialects used in India. They have
a number of input engines for Indian languages, which they wish to make
available to remote users who connect to the Web Server over the
Internet.

Which architecture/framework is most suitable for this situation?



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