2008/7/5 JOE Conner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
>> For the benefit of anyone else on this list who has felt embarrassed at
>> asking any more questions on how to do something others seemed to find easy;
>> in other words, for tjose (if any) who like me have utterly failed to get
>> anywhere with scim:  I found the following on the net yeasterday:
>>
>> IMPORTANT: scim by default works only in an en_US.UTF-8 locale!
>>
>> Doh!
>>
>> Now, if I had been able to find any HOW-TOs on scim, I should no doubt
>> have found out a long time ago that that was the problem.  Or if I had had
>> teh courage to ask again on this list...
>>
>> Any volunteers to write some scim documentation?
>>
>> Meanwhile I am a happy user of uim in my en_GB.UTF-8 locale.
>>
>> My granddaughter, however, for whom I am doing this, is not impressed that
>> it is via the mouse and not via the keyboard. :-(   I should have thought
>> that one mouse click was far faster than typing "c h i" or "z u" etc.
>> Lisi
>>
>>
>>
>>
> OK, I'll bite.  What is scim and what has it to do with OOo?
>

An indispensible tool for inputting non-ASCII glyphs, e g, CJK languages,
from a standard keyboard on non-Windows platforms, e g, Linux. Here's a link
:http://www.scim-im.org/. Instructions for configuring SCIM in Ubuntu can be
found here (http://tinyurl.com/275sb8). Once this is done, the tool can be
used in all compatible word processors, including OOo. (Lisi, I was under
the impression that we had succeeded in helping you to get SCIM working a
long time ago !...)

Henri

Reply via email to