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

[LiuCougar]

did you install any Chinese Fonts in your system?


On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:10:10 +0100, Rodolfo Medina
<romeomedina@libero.it> wrote:
> 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
> 
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