input in emacs or vim

[panyo]

I am trying to set up Chinese input for emacs or vim.
SCIM has a 'smart pinyin' mode that my users tell me is
'almost as good as NJstar.' They complain about the native
input modes of emacs because they do not have completions of
common character groups. I am determined that there
should never be a reason for my users to go back to Windows,
so I hope you can help me.

While SCIM looks good so far, I cannot use it to enter text into emacs, vim, or gvim.
It looks like what is comming out of SCIM is UTF-8. But even when I visit an emacs buffer
in UTF-8 encoding, I cannot see the characters (the emacs input modes work fine, so it is an encoding, not a font problem). I have tried a few things and can see the text
I write when I look at it through a web browser, but not while I am typing.

What can I do? I need the system to remain in English. This is what I am entering to make
SCIM work:

[Hauser]

Try the following variables:

[panyo]