SCIM and other language characters -- documentation?

[HG]

yes i did the same ... in chinese perfect but i can't read chinese so 
well :) lol
font or local that's the question ? lol

Gabriel Dragffy a écrit :
> Now... this is very interesting, HG your previous email I could only see the 
> first two characters (ni hao) and ma was replaced by a dot. As I said I 
> changed ALL the font setting to copy Knoppix with no luck.
>
> Now I just went into my /etc/environment file and changed the locales from 
> en_GB to zh_CN, and now my entire system (all menus etc) are in Chinese and 
> SCIM has popped up and is now the default input method. Now I can see all 
> Chinese characters and the fonts are the same (DejaVu variants). Thus I 
> hypothesise that the problems are caused by the locale and not the fonts.
>
> This setup is nearly perfect EXCEPT I want my system to be in English, but 
> have the SCIM input method and seeing all chinese is what I want... Any ideas 
> how to accomplish this goal?
>
> On Wednesday 31 May 2006 23:16, HG wrote:
>   
>> Maybe ...
>> but using scim in gaim works fine on kubuntu (GAIM is gnome ?)
>> well there is a little problem : in ni hao ma ni is grey and the two
>> others are black...你好马
>> you see i typed in thunderbird...
>> Henri
>>
>> Peter Clark a écrit :
>>     
>>> On Wednesday 31 May 2006 09:34, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hey I really want to get to the bottom of another related problem - did
>>>> you solve the issue of not all characters displaying correctly? I.e.
>>>> some Chinese characters are replaced by a dot?
>>>>
>>>> The two links below show the same chinese page displayed under Knoppix,
>>>> where it looks perfect and the bottom link is the same page under
>>>> dapper, with many of the characters missing,
>>>>
>>>> displayed under Knoppix 4:
>>>> http://wheresgabe.frih.net/backup/images/baidu-jay-knoppix4.png
>>>>
>>>> And the same page displayed under Dapper:
>>>> http://wheresgabe.frih.net/backup/images/baidu-jay-dapper2.png
>>>>         
>>>     My (uneducated) guess would be that the font Dapper uses does not
>>> have all the characters that Knoppix's font does. What fonts do Knoppix
>>> and Dapper use for Chinese?
>>>
>>>     :Peter
>>>       
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