W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
>> I understand that it is important to cut these
>> options to make iiim less unstable and for better
>> performance and to save space, but this also makes
>> the OpenSolaris LiveCD, at least for most traditional
>> Chinese users who do not have, or don't know how to
>> use a bopomofo keyboard, practically unusable.  (Of
>> course, we can always install SCIM ...)
>>
>>     
>
> It also should be pointed out that, to the best of my knowledge, none of 
> other LiveCD distros, including Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSE, etc., provide input 
> option for non-English speakers.  (At least their official releases don't.)
>
> Thus, the fact that the "official" OpenSolaris LiveCD provides input 
> capability for, say, the 1.3+ billion Chinese speakers, should be considered 
> VERY significant.  However, we should also keep it in the right perspective 
> that this is only a LiveCD, its capabilities are understandably limited.  
> This is where IPS comes into play--in a very big way I may say.
>
> Nothing currently available can be easier than installing SCIM into 
> OpenSolaris.  Justs open the Package Manager, search "scim", check 
> appropriate box(es).  hit install/update.  Voila!  You're done!
>   
   Is there a need to disable iiim after scim is installed?  Is there a 
validated steps to switch to scim, we could document it in a blog 
somewhere at least for future references.

-Ghee
> This is where we will see another big difference b/t OpenSolaris and all 
> other LiveCD distros.  With Ubuntu, I don't think I will be able to impart 
> Chinese localization without much googling (& I consider myself a very 
> experienced Linux user) and carefully following the steps.  Even that, I am 
> still struggling about inputting Chinese characters in OpenOffice.org.  With 
> SuSE LiveCD, I am still struggling, period. :-)
>   

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