FW: SCIM and other language characters -- documentation?

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Yes scim could be a good linux solution like njstar on windows
i always made late my coming to a complete linux because
webcam messenger and writing chinese couldn't work on linux
One week on kubuntu and I am impressed... I got read of xp in dual boot 
and used my two hdd for kub... Vmware is working very well too..
So if i really need a solution at short time i can always use xp in it...
I am trying to test every aspect one can give to me on forum or mailing 
list so scim configuration improved a lot...
thanks a lot for your helping all :)
Henri
Jonathan Jesse a écrit :
> I sent the original email to Kubuntu users as there were lots of questions
> regarding SCIM and how to use it.  There is apparently a large hole here.
> If we are touting SCIM and how it works (mentioned in the release notes at
> least) then we need some documentation.  I am totally out of my league here
> but would be willing to help out any way I can.
>
> JOnathan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:kubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Christian
> Fröbel
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 3:53 AM
> To: Kubuntu Help and User Discussions
> Subject: Re: SCIM and other language characters -- documentation?
>
> Hey Jonathan,
>
> as I'm new to kubuntu it's good to see that someone is caring about 
> documentation:)
>
> Now I finally got skim/scim running following the instructions documented on
>
> the wiki-page Thilo Six pointed me at:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InputMethods/SCIM/CJK_Chinese_Japanese_Korean_Input_
> Method_configuration_using_SCIM_in_Ubuntu_6%2e06_Dapper_Drake
>
> But still I'm not able to input Latin characters using skim/scim.
>
> I'm not the right person to contribute to the documentation in this case as 
> I'm new to the topic. But maybe it helps if I tell you where I had problems.
>
> Firstly, there seems to be a general lack of documentation out there. I 
> searched the internet for decent docs but only got phony stuff. All I got
> was 
> something like:
>
> "Smart Common Input Method platform (SCIM) is an input method server and a 
> development platform to make Input Method developers' lives easier."
>
> This sentence seems to have been copied and pasted everywhere -- even into
> the 
> package descriptions.
>
> I need some kind of generel conceptual description. And along with this a 
> clear definition of the terms Input Method and Input Method Engine. Also 
> there seem to be conceptually different engines. Native scim engines and 
> bridges. The bridges seem to "bridge" to a library, like uim.
>
> What makes things worse is, that there seem to be almost parallel concepts
> out 
> there. There is scim and XIM and Xorg's native composing input method. Up to
>
> know I still can't tell the difference between scim and XIM. What is XIM 
> anyway? Some kind of deprecated stuff?
>
> What is the difference between scim and skim?
>
> Once I got it running I was wondering what all the options in the skim 
> configuration dialog were good for.
>
> And, the worst of all. Where is the documentation of input method engines.
> I'm 
> still looking for docs of the UIM-latin engine. The UIM-latin engine seems
> to 
> be part of the scim-uim bridge. And the documentation only refers to the 
> documentation of the uim-library. That's nice, but doesn't help me.
>
> I posted a request for documentation on UIM-latin on the mailing list 
> uim at lists.freedesktop.org, but no response up to now.
>
> regards,
>   Christian
>
>