Are you trying this with antialiasing or without? Is the checkbox in the font dialog in the KDE control center on of off?
but I can get Chinese to appear in GNOME, Netscape, Mozilla and many other programs that I suspect using gtk+.
Then you have chinese fonts and it should work as well.
Then I tried to see if I can type any Chinese using xcin. I know it is an XIM server and the author of XIM said we need to configure the XIM clients to receive the input from xcin, but I simply don't know what to do. I tried the keystrokes "Ctrl-Space" but I cannot switch to Chinese input methods. All the default keystrokes simply don't work. May I ask if there are additional setup required?
If xcin is started automatically when ~/.xim is sourced from
~/.xinitrc, this should work 'out of the box'. But if you start xcin
manually, you have to set XMODIFIERS to the correct value.
You can see the correct value for XMODIFIERS on standard output
when you start xcin manually.
For example, if you start xcin with LANG=zh_TW.Big5:
mfabian@gregory:/tmp$ LANG=zh_TW.Big5 xcin
XCIN (Chinese XIM server) version xcin 2.5.2.3.
(module ver: 20000831, syscin ver: 20000210).
(use "-h" option for help)
xcin: locale "zh_TW.Big5" encoding "big5"
xcin: XIM server "xcin" transport "X/"
^^^^
xcin: inp_styles: Root OverTheSpot
In that case you have to use
~$ export XMODIFIERS=@im=xcin
But when you start xcin with LANG=zh_TW (without the .Big5):
mfabian@gregory:/tmp$ LANG=zh_TW xcin
XCIN (Chinese XIM server) version xcin 2.5.2.3.
(module ver: 20000831, syscin ver: 20000210).
(use "-h" option for help)
xcin: locale "zh_TW" encoding "big5"
xcin: XIM server "xcin-zh_TW" transport "X/"
^^^^^^^^^^
xcin: inp_styles: Root OverTheSpot
mfabian@gregory:/tmp$
you have to use
~$ export XMODIFIERS=@im=xcin-zh_TW
instead.
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Mike Fabian