[SCIM] Re: From a newbie: problems in running scim

[Rodolfo Medina]

Mike FABIAN wrote:

> XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 emacs
>
>works fine. Maybe you forgot to set XMODIFIERS?
>Any other UTF-8 locale should work as well if it is listed in
>/etc/scim/global in the variable "/SupportedUnicodeLocales".


Rodolfo wrote:

>The line
>XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
>was already present in my ~/.18n; then in my /usr/local/etc/scim/global
>I changed the line
>/SupportedUnicodeLocales = en_US.UTF-8
>into
>/SupportedUnicodeLocales = en_US.UTF-8,it_IT.UTF-8,zh_CN.UTF-8
>; then rebooted and tried with
>$ LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 emacs
>, and the opening of Emacs was accompanied by the following output:
>
>[rodolfo@localhost rodolfo]$ LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 emacs
>Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
>
>. Then, when I activated scim with C-space
>only the European input method was available.


Mike FABIAN wrote:

>Then you probably add some glibc package.
>
>On SuSE Linux, *all* locales are in one big package "glibc-locale".
>Maybe Mandrake has split this in different packages which you can
>install separately.


I did `# urpmi locales-zh', and after the installation the item
`zh_CN.UTF-8'
appeared in the output of `$ locale -a' (it was absent before), and also
a new directory `zh_CN.UTF-8' was created in my `/usr/share/locale',
so I suppose the locale zh_CN.UTF-8 is now installed in my system.
Then I did `$ LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 emacs', and this time the
warning message `locale not supported by C library' did not appear any more.
Then I activated scim with C-space
and this time the smart pinyn input method was there;
but when trying to input chinese characters I got chaos code instead:

中å½

. Strange, isn't it? Any hint?

Cheers,
Rodolfo