Chinese text entry

[Michael T. Richter]

On Fri, 2006-21-04 at 22:04 +0200, Loïc Martin wrote:

> If your session is in Chinese, you have scim input everywhere. If it's 
> not, too bad, but atm you only have scim in apps that allow input method 
> selection with a right click in the page (like gterm and gedit - and I 
> know it's not gterm, but I'm too lazy to type the full name :) It 
> *should* be gterm anyway :P ). You can set scim input everywhere (like 
> OO) yourself, but that means reading some docs and editing a few files 
> (if you're happy enough to have understood the docs, of course). Don't 
> ask me though, I still use Breezy when I need to input Chinese (a 
> hassle, but I least it works).


Eh?  I've adjusted absolutely nothing, but I can use SCIM everywhere.
你好吗？  That was a Ctrl-Shift away and in Evolution.  Another
Ctrl-Shift and I'm back in English.  I can do the same in any app that
can cope with UTF-8 input at all.  (Which is every app I use --
including OpenOffice.org2.)

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