newbie: dapper: skim and latin characters

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The best way ... but not the most linux one :)
install vmware (station) or vmplayer
run xp and run njstar
and you get it as good as in xp :)
but I prefer using scim and try to find out
all these little tricks that make it works
not as well as on xp.
OpenOffice.Org  can be used
cheers
Henri
Christian Fröbel a écrit :
> Hello Gabriel,
>
> I don't know much about it but maybe I can be of help...
>
> Let's assume you installed all the necessary packages. First thing you have to 
> do is to start skim (Alt+space "skim" <enter>, or KMenu->Utilities->Skim). 
> Then you should see an icon in the system tray.
>
> Next, fire up a new KMail composer window. There in the text area right-click 
> and select "Select Input Method"->scim from the menu. Hmm, as I try it now, 
> it doesn't work anymore. But you should see a little pane now floating 
> somewhere around the desktop. If not, try Ctrl+space; maybe this brings up 
> the pane. In that pane you should see the currently selected input engine. 
> Click on it and select the one you like. I only had one (simplified) Chinese 
> input engine. And after selecting it, typing on my keyboard produced some 
> uncomprehesible characters, probably Chinese:)
>
> I noticed that right-clicking in an edit field of a KDE application doesn't 
> always bring up a menu containing the "Select Input Method"-item, e. g. kedit 
> and kate. That's low. And maybe that's where XIM comes into play because it 
> does not depend on Qt/KDE or GTK (but that's a guess). I had a look at my 
> SuSE installation and they seem to use XIM. But with that I don't know if 
> they could manage Chinese.
>
> Let me know how far you get. I think booting Windows every time you need to 
> write some Chinese is not really an option. And maybe someone else can shed 
> some light on this topic.
>
> cheers,
>   Christian
>
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