newbie: dapper: skim and latin characters

[HG]

very easy to install scim dans kubuntu...
with adept install :
scim (kub will put you some dependances)
- chewing
- tables
- pinying
and add cn in locale
then run scim and configure it
your keboard for me is french
just select chinese simplified if you only need it
go in kopete for example
and in a user window
clic with right mouse button
you have input choose scim
then go in the tray and select
simplified chinese
and start to write chinese
there is a lack of pictogramms
i don't know why with mandriva i had more
but was older version of kde...
maybe there is better way to tune it
if my explaination are not clear
ask me i will try to be better :)
cheers
Henri



Gabriel Dragffy a écrit :
> I am very interested in your experience with SKIM. I'm British but currently 
> working in China. I need to be able to input Chinese but I can't get SKIM to 
> work in Dapper, I must always reboot in to Windows. I had the same problem of 
> not being able to find any documentation or help on the internet or with the 
> program. I have various input modules installed but no matter what I do I 
> cannot switch to Chinese input, can you tell me how you switch input methods 
> please?
>
> On Saturday 27 May 2006 20:03, Christian Fröbel wrote:
>   
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'm a long time SuSE user and now I'm trying Kubuntu for the first time. I
>> freshly installed the 6.06 LTS RC1 version. I chose English language and
>> English keyboard layout. However, I'd like to input all kinds of latin
>> characters, especially German umlauts.
>>
>> On SuSE (with KDE), there was some kind of prefix input system, e. g.
>> typing "o gives german umlaut ö, or Alt Gr+s gives ß (I switched to German
>> keyboard layout to input these characters). Back then I didn't care how it
>> worked, it just did.
>>
>> I tried to figure out how it is supposed to work with Kubuntu. I read
>> something about scim and skim. I searched the internet sites, the package
>> descriptions and so on but couldn't find anything of real use.
>>
>> I installed almost all packages related to scim and skim, such as skim,
>> scim, scim-uim, scim-m17n and so on. I started skim and got an applet icon
>> in the panel. From there I worked my way to the configuration dialog. Most
>> of the options there don't mean anything to me. But I noticed a long list
>> of IMEngines. Among them something like UIM-latin, which sounds promising.
>>
>> I went on to try it out. In the KMail composer I right-cliked in the edit
>> field. In the "Select Input Method" menu I selected scim. Then I tried out
>> several IMEngines (including UIM-latin). I got a lot of Japanese and other
>> characters but nothing close to German umlauts.
>>
>> Also there are no descriptions of the IMEngines. I couldn't even find some
>> docs in the internet. Maybe UIM-latin is the right one, but how does it
>> work?
>>
>> BTW: In the KDE menu "Select Input Method" the default is XIM. What is this
>> anyway? Obviously there are the two different systems; scim and XIM. Which
>> is the right one to go with? Where can I set the default input method used
>> by kde/qt?
>>
>> Thanks for your time.
>>
>> regards,
>>   Christian
>>     
>
>