And you thought that the X11 IM is insane. On Wayland the situation is even worse.
http://dorotac.eu/posts/input_method/
At least the XMODIFIERS env seems to be gone and a program can ask the compositor to be the IM instead of X11 going down the path of looking at an env variable and doing nothing when the IM in the env isn't actually available.
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