[SCIM] Help getting scim to run on Debian

[suzhe at tsinghua.org.cn]

Please don't use zh_CN.gb2312. Use zh_CN or zh_CN.GBK instead. Official XFree86
4.3.0 has a bug in supporting zh_CN.gb2312 locale.

And you may ignore the socket server error and the unknown attr error.

Regards
James Su

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>From:Zhengzhu Feng <fengzz at cs.umass.edu>
>Reply-To: Smart Common Input Method platform <scim at freedesktop.org>
>To: scim at freedesktop.org
>Subject: [SCIM] Help getting scim to run on Debian
>
>Hi all!
>
>I am searching for a Chinese input solution in Linux and come across 
>this project, which looks very promising. However I am having some 
>problem getting it to run correctly. I am running Debian 
>testing/unstable mixed. Here is what I did:
>
>1. download scim-0.9.6 as well as scim-tables-0.3.5. no problem 
>compiling/installing.
>2. open an xterm, and run scim. seems fine, but it failed to load the 
>socket server module. here is the output:
>
>fengzz at x31:~$ scim
>Smart Common Input Method 0.9.6
>
>Loading simple Config module ...
>Creating backend ...
>Loading Server module: rawcode ...
>    Loading Server Factory 0 ... : OK
>rawcode Server module is successfully loaded.
>Loading Server module: socket ...
>Failed to load socket Server module.
>Loading Server module: table ...
>    Loading Server Factory 0 ... : OK
>    Loading Server Factory 1 ... : OK
>    Loading Server Factory 2 ... : OK
>    Loading Server Factory 3 ... : OK
>    Loading Server Factory 4 ... : OK
>    Loading Server Factory 5 ... : OK
>    Loading Server Factory 6 ... : OK
>    Loading Server Factory 7 ... : OK
>    Loading Server Factory 8 ... : OK
>    Loading Server Factory 9 ... : OK
>    Loading Server Factory 10 ... : OK
>    Loading Server Factory 11 ... : OK
>    Loading Server Factory 12 ... : OK
>    Loading Server Factory 13 ... : OK
>    Loading Server Factory 14 ... : OK
>    Loading Server Factory 15 ... : OK
>    Loading Server Factory 16 ... : OK
>table Server module is successfully loaded.
>Loading x11 FrontEnd module ...
>Starting SCIM ...
>
>3. open another xterm, and do
>   export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.gb2312; export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
>   (I am using bash)
>4. run some program in this xterm, say crxvt-gb. within crxvt-gb, I can 
>activate the input panel by "ctrl-shift"; I can type some letter to get 
>a list of Chinese characters; but when I choose one of them by pressing 
>a number key, I get no Chinese character in the crxvt-gb window (as if I 
>typed in nothing). I tried mozilla as well as emacs, they all behave the 
>same. On the other hand, I can get xcin to work correctly with these 
>applications.
>
>another observation in this case: if I turn off the input panel by 
>"ctrl-shift" again, I can type in English letter as normal. But each key 
>I pressed, I got a "scim_x11_ic.cpp(373):Unknown attr: inputStyle" 
>message from the consol running scim.
>
>Thanks for your help!
>
>-zhengzhu
>
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