Marc Waeckerlin
At first sight, SCIM looks not bad, but also a bit unfinished, compared to xcim, how do you see this?
I cannot really give a meaningful comparison of xcin and SCIM because I don't speak Chinese. I can test whether they appear to work but that's about it.
A main advantage is, that the same tool can enter Chinese and Japanese. So even with LANG=zh_CN, I can enter Japanese.
Only Hiragana and Katakana, i.e. the usefulness is rather limited.
Unfortunately, the tool does not start with Ctrl-Space, if I start an application (kwrite) and the locale is de_CH.UTF-8. Why?
It's always[1] like that with XIM. LC_CTYPE needs to be set to the language you want to input. I.e. you need something like LANG=de_CH.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8
I'd be glad if I could work entirely in my Swiss environment and just occasionally switch on the SCIM to enter some Chinese (or Japanese or Korean).
LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 doesn't hurt, you should note no differences at all compared to LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 *except* that simplified Chinese input via XIM get's enabled.
Am Freitag, 25. Juli 2003 15.01 schrieben Sie unter "Re: [m17n] Poblems with scim":
A non-smart Pin Yin method is included in the open source parts of SCIM
I wasn't able to find it. Where is it, or how is it activated?
Sorry, you are right, apparently scim-tables-zh doesn't contain any Pin Yin input method: mfabian@gregory:~$ rpm -ql scim-tables-zh /usr/share/doc/packages/scim-tables-zh /usr/share/doc/packages/scim-tables-zh/README-Erbi.txt /usr/share/scim /usr/share/scim/tables /usr/share/scim/tables/CangJie.bin /usr/share/scim/tables/Cantonese.bin /usr/share/scim/tables/Erbi.bin /usr/share/scim/tables/Jyutping.bin /usr/share/scim/tables/Simplex.bin /usr/share/scim/tables/Wubi.bin /usr/share/scim/tables/Ziranma.bin mfabian@gregory:~$ I believe Jyutping is a phonetic input method for Cantonese, and Cangjie and Wubi are radikal based input methods. I have no idea at all about the others.
I can enter Japanese Hira-/ Katakana, but didn't find the Kanji key (any idea where it is?).
There is not conversion to Kanji for Japanese implemented in SCIM.
Footnotes:
[1] well, not always: mlterm supports runtime switching of input methods,
i.e. you can still enable SCIM in mlterm after starting mlterm with
LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8. Yudit supports this as well. But this is a rare
feature. IIIMF, the successor of XIM is supposed to improve this
situation and allow runtime switching of input methods always.
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Mike Fabian