[SCIM] Inputting tone-correct Pinyin (not characters) with SCIM

[James Su]

Hi,
  Yes, it's the limitation of XIM. If you use gtk immodule with OOo 
(Ximian OOo support it). then there is no such issue.

Regards
James Su

Kenichi Handa wrote:

>In article <278a3d041206225326aa7449 at mail.gmail.com>, Zhe Su <james.su at gmail.com> writes:
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>>> Even after restarting scim, with LANG=ja_JP.eucJP (my
>>> default), I can select only a few m17n-based input method
>>> (ja-xxx) with OO.o.  But, with LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, I can
>>> select all m17n-based input methods including zh-pinyin.
>>> 
>>> It's surely strange.
>>> 
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>>>
>>It's not strange. LANG=ja_JP.eucJP can only support Japanese. So only
>>Japanese input methods can be selected.
>>But ja_JP.UTF-8 can support all languages, so all input methods can be used.
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>I think restricting available input methods by locale is not
>a good idea.
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>Even in ja_JP.eucJP locale, OpenOffice can handle all
>languages (at least it can display not only Japanese but
>also many others).
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>Or, do you mean that OpenOffice uses scim via XIM, and XIM
>supports only such encoding specified by locale?  But, even
>in that case, it is possible to encode many Chinese
>characters to eucJP.  On the other hand, even in the Chinese
>locale zh_TW.big5, as far as I know, pinyin characters
>(e.g. U+0101) are not included in Big5.
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>Ken'ichi HANDA
>handa at m17n.org
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