Friedrich Dimmling
Until now I was happily working with GNU Emacs and CJK LaTeX. Now I have to setup KMail to handle Chinese emails and maybe Chinese characters in other programs as OpenOffice too.
I have the Arphic Trutype fonts installed and Mozilla and even Konqueror are displaying Chinese Web pages. Xcin is installed and can be started by e.g.
LANG=zh_TW.Big5 xcin
showing its blue window. I know that I have to enter
export XMODIFIERS=@im=xcin-zh_TW
Use the following instead: LANG=zh_TW LC_ALL=zh_TW xcin export XMODIFIERS=@im=xcin-zh_TW this works. xcin is a bit picky about the exact value of the locale when started.
somewhere (but where???), however I could not find out the steps to input a Chinese character into a blank email template.
Maybe there is a step by step "xcin for dummies" somewhere but I did not find it. Please help.
Extremely simple example:
- Control-Space to switch from English to Chinese.
- Control-Shift to change the input method.
repeat until the input method is 'bimspinyin'
- enter 'ni3hao3 Return' to input 你好
To find out more keybindings for xcin look into /etc/xcin/xcinrc.
If you want to learn the Cang Jie input method 'cj', you
can find a short introduction here:
http://www.sungwh.freeserve.co.uk/sapienti/chongkit.htm
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Mike Fabian