Gustaf, On Wednesday 13 October 2004 18:21, Gustaf Kugelberg J�nsson wrote: <snip>
Not only doesn't Chinese or Japanese work out of the box, it's also next-to-impossible to get it to work. It seems obvious that a certain amount of incompetence has to be involved.
SuSE is not responsible for developing all the different IMs that exist for inputting different languages. As I said in my first post, multi-lingual support in linux has for most of its history been very fragmented, poorly documented and functionally incomplete when compared to Windows systems. Is this good? No. But is this SuSE's responsibility? No.
Why on earth couldn't it be integrated into the OS? <laugh>. What does that mean? No. stop, let's not get into that discussion.
Installing the files you mention seems easy enough, but launching it and getting it to work in emacs is probably more like Chinese torture. I have tried to get canna to work before, and then all the files were present from the start, but that didn't prevent the installation from taking more than a week.
I don't claim that what worked for me will work for you. I was trying to offer you some encouragement and describe a method that has worked in a situation that is similar to yours. Now you mention emacs. Does scim only not work in emacs, or does it not work in any app? I don't use emacs so In order to test scim + emacs for you I just installed it from the dvd. It didn't work (which didn't surprise me). I then installed xemacs and gave it a spin. I was happy to find that I could enter Chinese without any problems (at least I tested “哎哟！我在EMACS可以输入中文"). Can you use xemaces instead of emacs?
Is there a description anywhere listing the steps that need to be taken? Typically, Linux instructions say something like "install the fonts in the proper directoy and tell TeX where to find them. Then compile the whole package. Most of the libraries are included in the gzip file." That is grand if you already knew how to do it, in which case the instructions are unnecessarry, otherwise it's plain idiotic.
Do you have a .xim file in your home directory? What does it say? Have you read Mike's CJK document? Jethro