(1) (xintl/error) Can't initialize XIM: XCreateIC failed

[T F]

On 5/21/06, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> >>>>> "mike" == T F <through.the.forest at gmail.com> writes:
>
>     mike> pardon me if this is the wrong place to post this error. if
>     mike> so, please let me know which is the correct list.
>
> Contact your vendor, SuSE.  I've not seen any problem reports with
> "vanilla" builds, and on the other hand the kinds of problems that are
> likely to arise that generate such symptoms are workstation
> configuration details that your OS vendor should take care of.  (That
> is not to say that XEmacs couldn't have such a bug or handle the error
> better, but the OS vendor is in a better position than we are to
> distinguish between configuration issues and XEmacs bugs.)
>
> For this problem, and for the closely related problem of XIM
> initialization failing because of not finding a FontSet (which is a
> bug that is present in XEmacs 21.5.27 and later), you can eliminate
> all possibility of the error occurring by configuring XEmacs with your
> usual flags, except for `--with-xim=no', then rebuilding (this is a
> C-level issue, it's not possible to work around with Lisp).
>
>     mike> i'm not sure what xintl xim xcreateic are, but bfrom
>     mike> googling, it seems they are related to Japanese features,
>     mike> which I do not have need of in the near future.
>
> XIM may also be used for multilingual input in general.  The preferred
> solution for most users of a *single* European language is to
> reconfigure the keyboard, but if you need multiple foreign languages,
> an input method (the IM in XIM) is useful.  (You probably still don't
> need it, but I thought I'd mention it just in case.)

thanks.

best,
mike