[SCIM] help: scim 0.9.3 on whitebox linux

[James Su]

Hi,
  Sorry, scim 0.9.3 has a bug to prevent it from supporting 
en_US.UTF-8.  I'll release a new version recently to fix this bug. Then 
scim can run under en_US.UTF-8 locale without setting LC_CTYPE to zh_CN.

Regards
James Su

Klaus Weidenbach :

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>Hello,
>
>I think you have forgotten to set the LC_CTYPE and XMODIFIERS variables. 
>Without them it cannot work. You can test it if you type in a xterm these 
>two:
>export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
>export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN
>For the LC_CTYPE you have to choose your language setting, if you want to use 
>the Japanese Input Methods you need to set it ja_JP or they will not be shown 
>in scim. SCIM will then only work for programs that you start with this 
>xterm!!! If you want to activate SCIM generally for your PC, for all users 
>and all WM you need to set these two variables in the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. 
>But here every Linux distribution has it's own way and I don't know whitebox. 
>I have Slackware Linux and I have found many ways for different situations. 
>Like for me it didn't worked in the xinitrc when I used a KDM or GDM. Then I 
>had to add these to Xsession when I remember right, but not so sure anymore. 
>Well, but at the end I have found the best way for me to set SCIM for only 
>some special users and with different langues in creating a '.profile' file 
>in the users home. This was how it worked for my situation best, but I dunno 
>if it is allright, or bad practice or something like that. ;o)
>- --- paste ~/.profile ---
># sets the locate to simplified chinese
>export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN
># sets SCIM as the Input Method
>export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
># starting the scim daemon
>scim -d
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>This is also explained in the documentation and also on the homepage ;)) Well, 
>I cannot read it, but there also exists a User Manual in Chinese language, 
>where it seems to be explained quite good. Maybe it can help you more than it 
>helped me. *g*
>
>  
>
>>I use scim 0.9.3 on whitebox linux 3.0.
>>
>>I downloaded and installed scim-0.9.3-1.i586.rpm &
>>scim-chinese-0.2.7-1.i586.rpm.
>>
>>Installation seem ok,run "scim -d" seem ok too.
>>I can see the scim-panel-gtk icon.
>>But when press control+blank nothing happen.
>>No Chinese input.
>>    
>>
>
>
>Regards,
>Klaus
>
>- -- 
>take care!
>
>xo,klaus
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