<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.0.9"> </HEAD> <BODY> 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 -------------- 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? </BODY> </HTML>