[TxMt] Asian language input methods

[Jonathon Delacour]

Having just returned to the Macintosh after eight years of using 
Windows (and TextPad), one of the first applications I installed was 
TextMate. Twenty minutes later, when I'd piped my first text through 
markdown.pl and created my first tab-activated snippets, I was already 
happy to pay the license fee.

However, I then found it wasn't possible to enter Japanese text. The 
list archives revealed that  Kazuo Saito had already raised this issue 
(http://one.textdrive.com/pipermail/textmate/2004-December/001824.html) 
and that Allan Odgaard had promised a fix:

> I can't give an ETA on when this will be fixed, but I can imagine it's
> frustrating for those who rely on these input methods, so I'll try not
> to have “the fix” pending for too long.

I appreciate that perhaps only a tiny minority of TextMate users need 
to work with Asian languages but was hoping that it might be possible 
to give an approximate ETA on when this will be fixed. I really don't 
want to waste time looking for an alternative to TextMate.

Thanks,

Jonathon Delacour