--- Bengt Thuree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hej > > I am an non-chinese speaking guy, who wants to > install a debian (sarge) > system for my chinese wife.
Congratulation you have a chinese wife :P Or perhaps Ubunto. But > the problem is that I > am not to sure of how to configure the system so it > will be an english > system, but with an easy way to handle simplified > chinese. Something > similar to Win XP IME input. I am not very sure your situtation. To enable chinese in Debian Linux, you could 1) select a Chinese environment under Gnome/KDE appending to your wife's account. By this approach your wife will obtain a full-chinese (not completed) operating environment when she logins to Gnome/KDE (such as menus, Dialog boxes) and you still can keep your language with your account. 2) attach a Chinese input method to any language with UTF-8 encoding (e.g. en_GB.UTF-8). By this approach system can input/recognise Chinese but the menu/others will be as yours preferred lanuage. > > Most of the sites I have found by using Google > referes to Chinese speaking > persons, or are very old. Oh, I suppose their wife are all Chinese ... > I found a promising site though, but all the > comments that looks to add > good information are in Chinese. > http://www.debian.org.hk/zh_cn/node/view/1067 > Also found this site > http://seba.studentenweb.org/thesis/linux.php > > Our goal it to enable chinese for file names, open > office, gaim, web and > email. > Probably more, but this will do for a start. Could you tell us which desktop environment you are using? Gnome, KDE or both? Basically if just pure-gnome you can tweak it about 10 -30 mins (font issue). In fact I am writing this email under such that environment. > > Hopefully someone knows of a good english howto site > for enabling Chinese > input on an English debian/Sarge/Ubunto system. > My English is quite bad. So please be patient. > Thanks in advance. > Cheers > > -- > Bengt > > Frank >From Mancheser, UK __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
