Friedrich Dimmling <f.dimmling@snafu.de> writes:

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 -- Mike Fabian <mfabian@suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。