"To make Linux applications usable worldwide, with no inequity between Western dialects and the rest of the world's many languages, you must be able to deliver localized versions that input, store, retrieve, and render any language, no matter how complex. The multilingualization library, or m17n, provides a single internationalization solution for all languages on UNIX-like platforms."
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Member since:2006-08-09
SCIM works for me on (Slackware) Linux in Koffice, Opera, and Limewire (though I haven't figured out how to get java to show UTF8 yet). What you need to do is set some environmental variables:
XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
QT_IM_MODULE=xim
export XMODIFIERS GTK_IM_MODULE QT_IM_MODULE
just letting you know
Thanks!
I used to do that with Suse 9.1+, but there SCIM didn't work with KOffice, Opera, etc. either. Weird, I knew that there was a very good reason Slackware is still around. 
I also used it for Ubuntu but 6.06 was a SCIM-M17N-disaster, unfortunately.
I'll give it a try again here, although Fedora seems to handle it a little differently. I use SCIM with FFF, OOo, and various other programs, without any problems. We might say that uniformity of m17n/i18n is still something to work on. I think SCIM is good enough to be fully configured out of the box in most distros, but sadly that's not the case yet. Suse, Mandriva and now FC are giving the right example.
BTW, what kind of characters do you use SCIM for?
Edited 2006-10-18 08:51
Member since:2006-04-04
Looking at cyberkoa's comment, I'm guessing you're not running SKIM? I haven't tried running the GTK SCIM as I've just recently installed SCIM/SKIM to experiment with Chinese input out of a spur of the moment decision and I'm sort of in my KDE period right now. So I'm not sure if Qt apps would actually work without running SKIM.
Member since:
2006-04-04
SCIM works for me on (Slackware) Linux in Koffice, Opera, and Limewire (though I haven't figured out how to get java to show UTF8 yet). What you need to do is set some environmental variables:
XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
QT_IM_MODULE=xim
export XMODIFIERS GTK_IM_MODULE QT_IM_MODULE
just letting you know