Chinese Input Programs????
 

does anyone know is there a good chinese input program for linux?
also, would it work with gaim?

if it works with linux, it should work with gaim.

I use scim, ÒòΪÎÒÓÃÆ´Òô¡£

I use fcitx.

Chinese support is not included in most distro?

Meaning need to download 3rd party?

I tried fcitx. It wouldn't work with OOo running Fluxbox, and
even though I hate KDE I booted it. Fcitx ran, but the first
character I tried was ni and it did not display the correct Hanzi.
The other choices it gave were incorrect Hanzi and some had
English letters. Typical open source software, IMO. So I booted
back into Windoze, where Chinese input works great.

When I booted back into Slack and Fluxbox, I didn't get my Slack
background, nor my Fluxbox menu. Seems the xmod whatever
changes I'd made for fcitx hosed Fluxbox.

So, just another piece of open source software which doesn't
work, whose instructions when followed to the letter messed up
something else. When I get a break in my work, I'll go fix my Flux
setup in Slack and remove fcitx...

Thanks for the reply. We're not trying to run a Chinese OS,
just input Chinese characters (Hanzi) while running an English OS.
For instance, in Windoze XP you install Chinese support when you
install the OS, and then all you need to do is press Alt + Shift at
any time in any program to input in another language. 你好

In Windoze this is done via an IME (Input Method Editor). Open
source doesn't seem to have caught up yet - supply and demand,
and since most Chinese (at least in China) use Windoze because it's
free here, and the software is written for it and works - this will probably
be something that doesn't get a lot of attention for *nix OSs.

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Your input displays as garbage except for fcitx and Scim...
can you input in English so we can understand you?

Can you see Hanzi in my last post? Ni hao

Sorry, If u need chineseinput system i think u should understand chinese well. I use Suse 9.1pro+firefox and my post display well on my screen. I don't know why there are garbage on your screen, it could proved that u can't make u browser well support Chinese!

BTW: Wo Hen Qifeng!

Sorry, if you offer advice I think you should understand computer well. I have no problem displaying or inputting Chinese in my Firefox browser, or any other browser, or any other program in Windoze. However, the same can not be said for Slackware or Mandrake or Debian...

And you didn't answer my question - can you read the Hanzi in my post #6? Or is it that Ni kan bu dong Yingwen?

Are you saying that you're very good at chess, mad, or just windy? ;-)

looks like an encoding issue as setting my main browser, konqeror, to auto causes it to look like garbage. manually setting the encoding to chinese cause it to be displayed right ( i think ) as i see something like:

fcitsome_chinese_charactersscimmore_chinese_characters...

it looked like garbage in firefox for me also. it looks like the encoding information of your post isn't getting set somehow.

as far as chinaman's post, i did see the chinese characters, which i'm going to assume is correct.

maybe u haven't config fcitx with correct Chinese fonts. and if you want your OO input and displayer chinese correct you should install OO 1.1 or above.

to displayer chinese correctly by firefox or mozilla, u should set u brows's encodeing to GBK(if you font support GBK, i.e. simsum) or GB 2312(all chinese font support this).

Okay, thanks megaspaz for pointing me in the right direction concerning the browser. I thought my encoding was set, but it wasn't - I'd just added Chinese as a language.

To update the browser issue, I've tried the following: Firefart 0.9.3 and Internut Exploder 6.0 in Windoze eXperiment. In Slackware Linux 10.0 I've tried Ephiphany (does anyone use that piece of junk?), Galeon, Nutscrape, Mozilla, Firefart 0.9.1 and Konqueror. And the winners are:
Internut Exploder (great looking fonts) and Konqueror (crappy looking fonts) are the only browsers that display all the Chinese input correctly. All those browsers display the 2 characters I inputed on my machine, but only those 2 display all the Hanzi in this thread.

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So, that's a browser specific problem (once you have the proper encoding set). Btw - the fonts look crappy in every program in Slackware and Mandrake on my system, and I have all the same fonts installed and selected as I do in Windoze - where Internut Exploder and Firefart display beautifully, as does everything else - but in all four of the Linux distros I've tried, fonts look horrible in every program. That's another issue. Please don't address it in this thread. Email me if you have an idea. I've read and tried everything on the ~www~

However, when tricky_linux started this thread, he wasn't talking about browser display issues. He asked, "is there a good chinese input program for linux?" Let's get it back on topic, please...

Would you please check my setup? This is my .fcitx/config
I'm using OO 1.1.2. I've posted a screenshot of an OOo window when I try to use fcitx.
Maybe you can tell me what the problem is...the screenshot is here ->
https://www.cotse.net/users/servants...x_screenie.png

When I type ni in Pinyin it gives me some funny choices, as you can see on the screenshot.