SCIM and other language characters -- documentation?

[Gabriel Dragffy]

So you are using zh_CN for LANG? And fr_FR for the rest?
Also my Chinese characters are still heavily anti-aliased, if I disable 
antialiasing they look better and clearer but then the English letters look 
pants. :( Can't seem to win!


On Friday 02 June 2006 00:12, Henri Girard wrote:
> Gabriel :)
> Thanks... you found it !!!
> i changed all en_GB in french in envir....
> i only had fr_FR and en_GB
> Works fine in all kde apps... and the letters have the same density
> cheers
> Henri
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gabriel Dragffy" <dragffy at yandex.ru>
> To: "Kubuntu Help and User Discussions" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 4:33 PM
> Subject: Re: SCIM and other language characters -- documentation?
>
>
> There is a certain combination of locales that you need to use. I spent 2
> hours ealrier today experimenting and finally found the optimal solution
> that
> allowed me to input chinese and read all characters whilst retaining most
> of my system in english. I have pasted the contents of my /etc/environment
> file,
> you can replace the GB with french or something and logout/in to make the
> changes active.....
>
> PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
>/X11:/usr/games" LANG="zh_CN.UTF-8"
> LANGUAGE="en_GB:en"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
>
> Hope this helps?
>
> On Thursday 01 June 2006 14:05, HG wrote:
> > I retry changing french for chinese and I still got dots for many
> > pictogramms...
> > i will try with english keboard...
> >
> > 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
> > >
> > > 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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