Support international input

[kkoreilly]

For example, when using a Japanese romaji virtual input method, the input menu is put in the corner of the window and does synchronize with events well. This is related to #9 and #568.

[kkoreilly]

We could do this if go-gl/glfw#371 is ever merged, or if we fold glfw into goosi (see #274).

[ddkwork]

gio seems to be implemented through this, but I still don't understand, currently core is specifying the font through the global setting to display Chinese?

https://github.com/go-text/typesetting
https://github.com/go-text/typesetting-utils
https://github.com/go-text/render

[kkoreilly]

I am going to figure out a good approach to international input, international fonts, and translation soon when I do my implementation of internationalization.

[ddkwork]

We could do this if go-gl/glfw#371 is ever merged, or if we fold glfw into goosi (see #274).

Let's slowly study the PR that can't be merged for two years, but I don't recommend merging the code into the core module because it's not convenient for us to pull its updates. Therefore, we should fork one, and its repository updates are not very frequent. This way, there are few conflicts when pulling, and it's easy to merge. Then, we can replace it in the module to your fork address

[kkoreilly]

We are going to see what happens with go-gl/glfw#392, and then we may consider forking glfw.

[ddkwork]

I don't think there's much hope, I used to play Fyne when I saw him deal with some issues and PR situations, compared to you, one in the sky and one underground, you are the kind of talent with good skills but very modesty, and he is not, let's start anew, no accident, that PR will continue to die in a few months.

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[kkoreilly]

Thanks! If there is no motion on that PR by the time I start working on internationalization, we will fork glfw.

[ddkwork]

okay

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[andydotxyz]

gio seems to be implemented through this, but I still don't understand, currently core is specifying the font through the global setting to display Chinese?

https://github.com/go-text/typesetting
https://github.com/go-text/typesetting-utils
https://github.com/go-text/render

As I do some work in the go-text project I can provide a little context. Those packages handle how text is displayed (typesetting is the layout and complex language rules, render is rasterising the information to image/screen).
As both Gio and Fyne use those packages for text handling it's not a differentiator with regards to international support.
The input (IME and more) relates to the OS level input and event handling framework and there isn't anything we can do at the text handling level to take care of it for you.

[kkoreilly]

Yep, there are three main parts of internationalization: fonts, translation, and input. We know how to implement international fonts, and the issue for that is #568. We know how to implement translation, and the issue for that is #9. This issue is for international input (IME) support, which must be implemented at the OS driver level. There are four separate PRs in different places that each implement that: glfw/glfw#658, glfw/glfw#2130, go-gl/glfw#371, and go-gl/glfw#392. If none of these PRs are merged by the time we get to international input support, which should be in a few weeks, then we will likely have to maintain a fork of go-gl/glfw with an IME PR merged.

[andydotxyz]

Cool, seems like you have it covered then :)