[Bf-committers] International Input

[Harley Acheson]

Yaohua Xiong, 

> Is it possible to add IM(IME on windows, XIM on linux, and whatever 
> on Mac:-)) support to blender with moderate effort? 

My gut feeling is that it would far from moderate but not impossible. For 
the Windows platform IME support comes pretty easy when you use 
Windows controls, but we're drawing everything in OpenGL, so I think we'd 
have to trap vk_processkey and draw the composition, status, and candidate 
windows ourselves using data we get from IME API. Sounds daunting. 

> I'd like to give that a shot 

As Matt mentioned it would be nice to first have international support for things 
like file paths. At the moment we can't browse anything in your "My Documents" 
folder or desktop if your username contains unicode. 

Harley