i followed what JDW said in http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5&pagenumber=1

i created a profile just for chinese. when i am in my normal user, i open a terminal and type

normal_user@linux:~> xhost +local:chinese@

normal_user@linux:~> su chinese

chinese@linux:~> xcin

the xcin box came out but i cant CONTROL+SPACE to switch to Hanyu Pinyin input.
it just wont react no matter how many times i hit CONTROL+SPACE.

there is nothing wrong wif my xcin, bcuz when i log-in to Chinese user using X, i can use xcin wif no problem.

any idea what i can do now?

thanx

i suspect its the xhost thing.
but if i dun xhost +local:chinese@, i will get;

xcin: locale "zh_CN" encoding "gb2312"
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

by the way, i am using suse9.0.

Hi,

Just a thought, give it a try again but you fire up xcin, do it with an app where you can input text, e.g. oowriter, kword or something like that.

chinese@linux:~> xcin & oowriter

then if all goes well you should be able to CTRL+SPACE to get the input window working.

btw, do you wish to input Simplified or Traditional Chinese?

if you are using trad, then I think xcin is the best input server.

if you are generally doing Simplified Chinese, then you can't go past scim or fcitx, both very easy for pinyin input and pleasing to the eye at the same time...

hope this helps!

jdw

hi JDW,

this is very interesting, i cant fire up kword. i can open kword when i am log-in to chinese user in X.
so i guess its not a xcin problem but rather a X server problem. anyone has any solutions?

actually i need both traditional n simplified chinese, bcuz i use both the china n taiwan search engines.

i did tried fcitx, but it doesnt seems to work, but i must say i only tried once, i will do it again once i solve this problem. Then i will haf a simplified chinese profile wif fcitx and a traditional profile wif xcin.


normal_user@linux:> su chinese

chinese@linux:> xcin & kword
[1] 3125
bash: kword: command not found
XCIN (Chinese XIM server) version 2.5.3-pre2.
(module ver: 20010918, syscin ver: 20000210).
(use "-h" option for help)

xcin: locale "zh_CN" encoding "gb2312"
xcin: XIM server "xcin-zh_CN" transport "X/"
xcin: inp_styles: Root OverTheSpot

Hi There,

looks like kword is not installed, try oowriter (which probably is installed in Suse by default).

you can give SCIM a go, it can do both Traditional and Simplified using Unicode coding, which is the way of the future, but in all honesty I've never had much luck setting up a traditional Chinese profile that works well; when I am in a Trad environment, the oowriter menus come out in Portuguese, not very useful to me at all, and I am no expert in Cangjie or Taiwanese Pinyin input methods - I should put a little more time into learning about these.

keep trying with fcitx, remember to download the proper version (not the beta release), as this has full Smart Pinyin functionality...

cheers,

jdw

Change locale on individual program. This is my method to solve i18n problems. It is good for people who doesn't use chinese everyday.

1. install bitmap font (kcfonts/taipei) and xcin. (arphic fonts are recommended as well)
2. write a short script like that:

#!/bin/sh
export LANG=zh_TW.big5
export LC_ALL=zh_TW.big5
export XMODIFIERS="@im=xcin"
xcin & epiphany

run that script and epiphany would be in chinese with input method enable. (Most of the time just set LC_CTPYE and xmodifiers are enough).

With similar method I get some language need as well. For example, I cannot type some spanish char with acens unless I set LC_MESSAGES to es_ES (but not LC_CTYPE). I still need to know how to enable simplify chinese/japanese/hkscs input. Sometimes I use wenzu and im-ja in gtk+ applications.

Xcin still cant work. i guess i just haf to log-in X as chinese user to type chinese.

using a script is also a gd suggestion, thanx.

by the way, openoffice wouldnt show the chinese fonts, only square boxes. how do i enable openoffice to show chinese fonts?

by copying fonts into /home/normal_user/OpenOffice.org1.1.1/share/fonts/truetype ?

well, i dunno wat i did, but suddenly openoffice has these fonts and no more square boxes.
AR PL KaitiM Big5
AR PL KaitiM GB
AR PL Mingti2L Big5
AR PL SungtiL GB

i guess maybe its bcuz i configure the country in openoffice as China, or maybe its bcuz i did not log-out n log-in after installing fonts in YAST, not sure though, watever...

thanx for all the help, appreciate it very much.

If fontconfig/fontpath are already configurated. The method to install fonts is copy the fonts to the path and run mkfontscale, mkfontdir and fc-cache. Restart X and the fonts are installed.

It doesn't mean that open office has the fonts, run spadmin from open office and make a softlink and the fonts would become available in open office. Make sure that the font files do not have spaces or else we may see problems.

I disabled fc-cache and ldconfig so slackware would start up faster

If you're reading this, JDW, I just wanted to say -- thank you! You have been one of the most tireless, friendly and helpful people on this board for all sorts of Chinese problems. You've been a huge help to all sorts of folks. Good on ya! Thanks again.

Hi Jiawen,

Very kind words indeed, thank you! Actually, I haven't really seen many responders in the LQ site who aren't kinda helpful, it's one of the things that is so cool about the Linux community...

Have a good weekend and keep hacking away at the Linux learning curve!

Cheers,

jdw