Re: chinese support glitches?

[Kouhei Sutou <kou cozmixng org>]

In <1078500072.748.29.camel@debian>
  "Re: chinese support glitches?" on Fri, 05 Mar 2004 23:21:13 +0800,
  Yao Heling <hyao@sina.com> wrote:
> 2. Maybe it's because the XIM program (fcitx) I use doesn't support
> gtk+'s immodule, so I tried to use uim; I installed quite a few uim

No. You can use XIM which doesn't support gtk+'s immodule.

Please tell me how to setting fcitx. I want to try it.

> related debs, but am at a loss what to do with each - in a word, I don't
> know how to use it; Even if I get uim to work, it doesn't support the

You can only put the following to your ~/.xsession.

  export LANG="zh_CN" # ? I don't know
  export GTK_IM_MODULE="uim-py"  # or uim-pyunihan
  export XMODIFIERS="@im=uim-py" # or @im=uim-pyunihan
  uim-xim &

Then you can activate uim by Shift + Space.

> know how to use it; Even if I get uim to work, it doesn't support the
> input method I'm used to, so I give tring to using uim;

What is this?
# I don't know how to input Chinese.

> 3. Now a simple question: do I have to use a XIM that supports gtk+'s
> immodule to input chinese charaters (possibly other languages that use
> XIM as well)onto dia's canvas? If that's true, is it a bug; as I can

No. I can input Japanese by using kinput2 which doesn't
support gtk+'s immodule.

You may need selecting input method by right-click.

> 4. Not only DiaText has this issue, but dia other objects (e.g. UML ->
> Small Package) that require to type characters directly onto the canvas.
> So even if your patch works with text, you may have to produce a patch
> for each of this kind of objects.

No. UML -> Small Package uses Text.

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kou