Thanks Ray. Would you be able to show me how to input and print CJK
characters in vim?
I'm sorry, but I don't really know how. At one point I was playing XIM
(X Input Method), but
I never really learned exactly how to set everything up. I'll tell you
what I do know.
Vim supports XIM, so if you can get CJK character input to work for any
other XIM application
then the same method should work for Vim.
XIM requires what's called an input server. Examples of input servers
are kinput2, xwnmo
(Japanese), and xcin (Simplified and Traditional Chinese).
There are four different methods of input using XIM: on the spot, over
the spot, off the spot,
and root window. Mozilla has a nice document that says the differences
between those:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/intl/input-method-spec.html
Vim only supports over the spot, off the spot, and root window.
When you run your input server, you'll need to be in the correct locale
and have the correct
fonts installed.
You can find out what locale's your system supports by typing "locale -a".
For instance, simplified chinese is zh_CN and japanese is ja_JP.
You have to tell X Windows which input server you are using. You can do
by settings
the XMODIFIERS environment variable or by adding a line to your
~/.Xdefaults file.
eg. type:
export [EMAIL PROTECTED]
or add
*.inputMethod: kinput2
to your ~/.Xdefaults file
Most input servers allow you to activate them by pressing shift-space or
ctrl-space.
Last note, make sure you have a version of vim installed that supports
multibyte
characters and xim, if you type :version then you should see +multi_byte
and +xim
somewhere in the list of things.
That's about all I can think of off the top of my head. I don't speak
anything but
English (well and a Spanish 101 level of Spanish). You might try search
google,
or looking through the vim help files... (vim has excellecent
documentation). I
would try something like :help xim or something. With vim, if you see
something
of the form |Topic| (like a word in vertical bars), you can use the
arrows (or
j, k, l, and h) to move your cursor to the word and then press CTRL-], to
jump to that specific topic. CTRL-o will bring you back to where you were.
--Ray
