SCIM and other language characters -- documentation?

[HG]

I looked in scim table in binary : there are a lot of dots ?
but as i don't understand i don't touch it !

HG a écrit :
> 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
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> 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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