2009/4/17 PoWah Wong <[email protected]> > > Yes, I installed SCIM some time ago but it make another program to produce > funny characters so I uninstalled now. > Is SCIM the best way to print Chinese? > Do some extra Chinese fonts (e.g. MingLiu) exist for linux? > > --- On Fri, 4/17/09, M Henri Day <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: M Henri Day <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [users] Print Chinese on FC6 with OOo 3.0.1 & Chinese font > is installed > > To: [email protected], [email protected] > > Received: Friday, April 17, 2009, 10:48 AM > > 2009/4/17 PoWah Wong <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > I can print a chinese document on windows XP using > > MingLiu font with > > > English locale as default. > > > I want to print the same document on FC6 linux with > > English locale as > > > default on the same computer & printer with OOo > > 3.0.1 but OOo Writer does > > > not have the "MingLiu" font so I tried > > "Courier" and "Dejavu Sans" fonts but > > > only funny characters are printed. > > > Please help. > > > Thanks. >
<snip> > > > > PoWah Wang, have you tried installing and using SCIM ( > > http://www.scim-im.org/) on your FC6 setup ?... > > > > Henri > My Linux experience is limited to various Ubuntu versions from Dapper and forward. There I have always used SCIM in order to enter East Asian glyphs, with relatively good success. The font I most often use for Chinese glyphs (简体字) is 智能拼音. You state that you don't want to upgrade your version of Fedora ; it might, however, possibly be the case that getting SCIM to work on later versions than on earlier ones. If you don't want to download and install a Chinese IME to your Fedora setup, there are several web-based IMEs from which you can choose.... Henri
