Stefan, On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 Stefan Baums wrote : > Thanks for your reply!
You are welcome, I wish my answer was more helpful. > In some respects, xterm is more completely i18n-ised than all > other terminal emulators. It is the only one, e.g., that gets > combining diacritics right, and it can certainly display Chinese > characters (and other Unicode) just fine. It should also work > with XIMs, and in fact it does: using chinput, I can enter Chinese > all right - it's just eating unnecessary CPU cycles, as described, > and when I have more than one xterm, the focus-flicker bug makes > the XIM unusable. This is most definitely a bug rather than a > missing feature. I am using konsole for the time being, but > konsole has redraw problems when it encounters Cyrillic, accented > Latin, Chinese etc., getting glyph widths wrong and scattering the > screen with artifacts. I didn't know that xterm was so capable. Could you post your xterm command line to display Chinese? I used xterm -fn hanzigb16fs under zh_CN locale, all I got was an unusable terminal. My experience was that Eterm works very well if not combining with SCIM, rxvt works also good with almost all Chinese XIMs. gnome-terminal works great if you want AA fonts. > Chinput does not have any config files under either /etc/ or ~/, > nor does it have a manpage. The documentation under > /usr/share/doc/chinput/ is in Chinese except for README.Debian.gz, > which does not help. I am sorry, I must have mixed the package content with xcin's. xcin does have a config file under /etc/. I went through the docs of chinput in /usr/share/doc/chinput. They are not very useful. I think rebinding the keys for IM activation can only be done with modifying source code for chinput. You might want to check out mini-chinput, it might have the key binding feature. > I don't like the fact that SCIM's pinyin module is non-free, and > that SCIM seems to be more of a moving target, under heavy > development. Neither did I like it. But considering the difference on input speed, I had no choice. :-( Hopefully, in near feature Chinese input can get a breakthrough, possibly by voice, or handwriting, then all those troubles of XIMs go away. -Min -- Rapid keystrokes and painless deletions often leave a writer satisfied with work that is merely competent. -- "Writing Well" Donald Hall and Sven Birkerts
