SCIM and other language characters -- documentation?

[Gabriel Dragffy]

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