Hi, Ming Hua On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 07:05:55PM -0500, Ming Hua wrote: > I can reproduce this, however it's not a bug in scim per se, but rather > the expected behaviour with no special settings for scim. > > When you say that scim works in C locale, did you ever really try to use > it to input Chinese (instead of, say, just press Ctrl-space and see the > panel). On most applications input method won't work in C locale, the > only exception I know is gedit.
Yes, I tried inputing Chinese in Gimp, Firefox, Gnome Terminal, and didn't experience any problem. > The reason for such behaviour is that with C or en_US locale, the GTK IM > module will be "scim" since you have scim-gtk2-immodule installed. In > such case scim will be automatically started in GTK2 applications, > therefore you can see the scim panel when pressing Ctrl-space. > > However in a zh_CN locale, the GTK IM module will be "xim". In such > case you can still use scim, but it won't be automatically started. To > use scim with XIM, you need to set XMODIFIERS environment variable, and > start up scim manually (or in some startup scripts, ~/.gnomerc for > example). OK, I get it. However, I believe the following two features are very much needed to make Debian an easy-to-use Chinese desktop environment: - Chinese input works by default (no manual configuration required), provided that a Chinese input server is installed. - Easy selection of a default Chinese input engine when there are two or more installed. > All these configuration details are well written in > /usr/share/doc/scim/README.Debian.gz. Please read that document > carefully. If you still have questions, please follow up this bug. Thanks for the pointer. I should have read it before reporting this bug. Among the various alternative methods described in the README, running "set-m17n-env" as a normal user is the simplest solution to my problem. > > I first noticed this problem when upgrading one machine from woody to > > sarge, and reproduced it in another machine using the above fresh > > installation procedure. > > I don't really understand this, since scim and related package are not > in woody at all. How can you have this problem when upgrading from > woody to sarge? Maybe scim is pulled in by Chinese localization task? Yes, I installed scim by installing the Chinese localization tasks. Wenzhuo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
