Chinese input?

Sunnz · Guru Joined: 18 Jun 2005 Posts: 370

Hello there.

I have been using Linux for a while, it displays Chinese nicely, but how do I input Chinese? That is, to post a message in Chinese? Do I need to install extra software? Also, what's the deal with encodings such as UTF-8, Big5 and GB?

Anyway, I not using Gentoo Linux at the moment, but I am using Fedora. I'll be installing Gentoo when I get my new computer.

Thank you.

z_sfeng · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 3:24 pm Post subject:

I would recommend SCIM.
You can find the documentation from http://www.scim-im.org/wiki/documentation.

Freesnake · n00b Joined: 12 May 2005 Posts: 35

emerge scim scim-pinyin
add the follow lines to /etc/env.d/110XIM

XIM=scim
XIM_PROGRAM=scim
XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
QT_IM_MODULE=scim

&&
add the follow lines to /etc/env.d/100i18n

LANG=zh_CN.GBK
LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.GBK