[SCIM] How to input both Simplified and Traditional Chinese with Scim

[Rodolfo Medina]

Hi, all.

I'm brand new to Scim.
I've just installed it in order to input chinese characters.
If anybody could be so kind to give me some help:

why in the Smart Pinyin menu only Simplified Chinese does appear?
and how to have also Traditional, in order to input both?

The installation turned out to be quite laborious because some problem
arose:
maybe did I make some errors in the installation itself?
Below I'm reporting the various steps I followed.

On my PC I have Mandrake Linux 9.1.

Any help will be higly appreciated.
Thanks indeed,
                Rodolfo


1)  From
    http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/ScimDownload
    I downloaded scim-1.0.1.tar.gz and scim-chinese-0.4.2.tar.gz


2)  I unpacked scim-1.0.1.tar.gz and then I did:

         # ./configure

    , but something went wrong, because at the end of the long output there
was:

         configure: error:
         *** SCIM requires
         ***      sizeof (unsigned short int)  == 2
         ***      sizeof (char)                == 1
         *** You might want to consider using the GNU C compiler.

    In fact, when I said '# make', I got:

    [root at localhost scim-1.0.1]# make
    make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.


3)  'glibc' was already installed; then I also installed 'glibc-i18n';
    but when I did './configure' to configure the package
'scim-1.0.1.tar.gz'
    it still gave the error message

        configure: error:
        *** SCIM requires
        ***      sizeof (unsigned short int)  == 2
        ***      sizeof (char)                == 1
        *** You might want to consider using the GNU C compiler.


4)  I did `$ drakconf' and installed all packages in the "Development Tool"
catalog,
    and finally I could install the `scim-1.0.1.tar.gz' package
    with the ./configure, make and `make install' circle.
    Everything seemed to go well, but when I tried to do the same with the
package
    scim-chinese-0.4.2.tar.gz I had problems with the ./configure:
    in fact, it ended with the following message:

    checking for scim >= 0.99.8... Package scim was not found in the
pkg-config search path.
    Perhaps you should add the directory containing `scim.pc'
    to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
    No package 'scim' found

    configure: error: Library requirements (scim >= 0.99.8) not met;
    consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
    if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find
them.


5)  I made sure the file 'scim.pc' was in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/,
    then I said '$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig'
    and then I builded scim-chinese-0.4.2.tar.gz, successfully, it seems.


6)  In the home directory I did:

        # localedef -f GBK -i zh_CN zh_CN.gbk



7)  I ran '$ locale -a' to check if 'zh_CN.gbk' had been created.


8)  The file ~/.i18n did not exist, I created it and edited it as follows:

        LANGUAGE=it_IT.UTF-8
        XIM_PROGRAM=scim
        CONSOLE_NOT_LOCALIZED=yes
        LC_MEASUREMENT=it_IT.UTF-8
        LC_TIME=it_IT.UTF-8
        XIM=SCIM
        LC_PAPER=it_IT.UTF-8
        LC_TELEPHONE=it_IT.UTF-8
        LC_MONETARY=it_IT.UTF-8
        LC_NUMERIC=it_IT.UTF-8
        LC_ADDRESS=it_IT.UTF-8
        LC_NAME=it_IT.UTF-8
        LC_MESSAGES=it_IT.UTF-8
        ENC=it
        LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
        LC_IDENTIFICATION=it_IT.UTF-8
        XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
        LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8
        LC_COLLATE=it_IT.UTF-8


9)  In the home directory, I did:

        $ sh ~/.i18n


10) I did

        # emacs /usr/local/etc/scim/global

    , and replaced the line

        /SupportedUnicodeLocales = en_US.UTF-8

    with

        /SupportedUnicodeLocales = en_US.UTF-8,it_IT.UTF-8



11) I did

        # emacs /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

    , and added the lines:

        LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.gbk scim -d

        export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM


12) I added the following lines to my .bash_profile file:

        export LANG=it_IT.utf8
        export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.gbk


13) In the file /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules I changed

        "/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0/immodules/im-xim.so"
        "xim" "X Input Method" "gtk+" "/usr/share/locale" "ko:ja:zh"

    into

        "/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/immodules/im-xim.so"
        "xim" "X Input Method" "gtk20" "/usr/share/locale"
        "ko:ja:th:zh:it"


14) I rebooted Linux


15) I did '$ scim -d'


16) I ran Emacs and typed "CTRL+SPACE" to turn on SCIM.