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[Michael T. Richter]

On Sat, 2006-29-04 at 00:11 +0000, William Grant wrote:

> > Now if you have the patience you can download SCIM, figure out which
> > of its umpteen modules actually work (together) and get something that
> > supports Chinese entry.  It's undocumented, mostly, which makes
> > figuring out how to use it less than easy, but at least it's there.
> > Of course to get it you have to switch to the unsupported software
> > (which would explain the difficulty of use, et al).



> 6.06's language selection tools configures SCIM and everything with a
> single click.


When Dapper is available and stable, that will be a very big welcome
change.  It still doesn't address the undocumented nature of the input
systems.  (What are the keystrokes used by Ziranma, for example?)  Nor
does it address the crappy screen fonts.  But it makes Ubuntu usable for
Chinese users (like my wife) out of the box instead of making them
either a) wrestle with a large variety of Magic Incantations<tm> or b)
hunt down a geek (like me) to take care of the frustrations for them.
(It would also be nice if the "five-stroke" -- not the same as Wubi! --
system were supported for keypad input -- but I guess I'm just a wild
dreamer.  :D)

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