
Seems to work with vietnamese and cyrillic.
There is a related project for yiddish and more, but I did not include that yet:
http://gtk-im-extra.sourceforge.net/
This is simple to use:
install the Dotpup, run the new Dotpup-menuentry once, start Abiword.
With a rightclick -> input methods choose cyrillic or vietnamese (Telex).
Choose the font "DejaVu" for your text ( 2.6, from http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page ).
Download (3 MB, 6 MB extracted):
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Libraries/Gtk ... u-font.pup
It seems, you will not need to set up UTF-locale stuff, I can even use it with LANG=de_DE (no UTF).
If I am wrong, tell me, and I will help you.
The modules itself are very small, just the included ldconfig and the font make it so huge.
I took the Unicode-modules from Mandriva LE2005, the vietnamese module I compiled myself ( from http://freshmeat.net/projects/gtk-im-vi/ ).
They seem to use other keycombinations than "x-unikey" introduced by Hacao in the language-wiki.
I tried a selfcompiled unikey 1.04, and also http://xvnkb.sourceforge.net/, but had no success. Spent a whole night with that

For a short moment, unikey worked, but then never again.
I don't know what I messed up

Mark