newbie: dapper: skim and latin characters

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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
>>     
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