New category needed for compsXML: i18n

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 23:44 +0900, Ryo Dairiki wrote:
> Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 05:02:27PM +0900, Ryo Dairiki wrote:
> >> I'm thinking of writing compsXML for SCIM related packages,
> >> and I need a new category like "I18n" or "Internationalization" for them.
> >> Where can I request it? Or just posting here is enough?
> >>     
> >
> > I am fairly ignorant on that subject, but aren't I18n related packages
> > like libraries, and pulled as dependencies by the apps that use them?
> > Are they of use by themselves?
>
> Not, really.
> 
> There are some extra packages in that category.
> For example, special input methods, and special composing dictionaries.
> 
> I own "scim-skk", which is yet another input method for Japanese.
> As you know, the default input method for Japanese in Fedora is 
> "scim-anthy",
> which is installed by dependencies on Japanese environments.
> But there are some people who prefer scim-skk to scim-anthy.
> For such people, scim-skk must shown in the list of apps to install.
> Just installed by dependencies is not a good idea.

There are groups for language support groups that this would be fine for
adding to

Jeremy