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. :-) > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
