kubuntu: chinese input?
 

hi,

how do i enable chinese (pinyin) input in kubuntu 9.04? i installed chinese through Regional & Language, n had the China flag shown on the panel, but switching among the US flag n China flag does nothing. i can only input alphabets all the same. did i miss out something?

what about changing your language at your login screen??

mobinskariya,

will that change the language of the whole system? n how do i change the language at my login screen? sorry, i have limited linux knowledge.

at left bottom corner of login window there is option.. you can change language there(i havnt tried changing my language).

mobinskariya,

i logged out to look at the login window. besides "user" n "password" at the center of the page, in the bottom right corner, there are Session Type, Menu n today's Date. under Session Type, there are 3 choices - Default, KDE, Failsafe. under Menu, there are 5 choices - Switch User, Restart X Server, Remote Login, Console Login, Shutdown.

oh no
im really sorry..iam using gnome as desktop environment and for me it is there.

mobinskariya,

it's fine, i welcome any idea i can try. hehe. trying to learn but i need help, knowing very little about linux.

ok i have switched to slackware..now i am in kde.. did you change your language other than your country..i can change it and all my system changes to that language

mobinskariya,

where can i change my language? i am currently choosing USA as my language.

under the country there is an option for add language.

mobinskariya,

under Regional & Language, i added "US English" n "Simplified Chinese" into the Languages box. it mentioned as a tooltip: "KDE programs will be displayed in the first available language in this list. If none of the languages is available, US English will be used." when i shifted "Simplified Chinese" to the top of the list n clicked on "Select System Language", the applications will be displayed in chinese, but i still didn't have the option to input in chinese. did i miss out anything?

in regional and accessibility you have keyboard layout which is under country/region and language..in keyboard layout you have to select your layout variant..i can now type in my language in text editors

mobinskariya,

under Keyboard Layout, selecting China, the Layout Variant gave me 3 options: Default, Tibetan, Tibetan (with ASCII numerals). none of these are what i use to have chinese input, i need PinYin. did i miss out some installation steps? or do i have to download PinYin myself from somewhere else to have it work?

may be you should install the require font and try again.

Try this:
Open a terminal and type in the command "sudo apt-cache search pinyin"
that will provide a list of packages whose descriptions include the word pinyin; install some of them the same way you installed pidgin (sudo apt-get install packagename)