Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-m17n (39 mails)

[Tobias Burnus <burnus@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I'll just started to use skim/scim (first for my first steps in Chinese
and as support for the Chinese members in our group). (I've the new
version from projects/m17n/ on a SUSE Linux 9.2 system with de_DE.UTF-8.)

In the skim configuration dialog I can enter keyboard shortcuts to
enable/disable scim and to change to the next input, but they don't seem
to be effective.

Is there a simple method to disable/enable scim completely? I mean in a
way I can quickly re-enable it. I tend to hit Shift+space rather
frequently and get then some nice characters, e.g., instead of leaving
vi (":q").

At "Scim server|input methods" of Skim config, I can enable/disable
input methods, but it does not seem to have any effect on both the menu
shown by the kicker applet or on the methods shown when cycling through.

What is the difference between Keyboard and
German/Keyboard>German/European by the way?

Question of the complete novice in Chinese: Next to the input parameter
field I see with "intelligent pinyin" a button labeled "中" and three
other symbols still unknown to me. What is ment by those?

By the way, I'll completely miss a description of how the input methods
work. I figured out that, e.g., unicode works by entering the entering
the hex code of the character, but what means "unicode", "utf-8", "de"
next to it?

Tobias