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nkw

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Registered: 2004-03-26

Posts: 80

help, how to input Chinese in archlinux?

The chinese can always be displayed in mozilla.

i tried to run
LC_ALL=zh_CN.gb2312 LANG=zh_CN.gb2312 mozilla

but when press Ctrl-space, the chinese input method doesn't popup,

i've installed all KDE. Any particular module i need to install? tried to search on archlinux.org for package of chinese and cannot find one....

zeppelin

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2004-03-05

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Re: help, how to input Chinese in archlinux?

i never had experience with chinese but u can try keyboard settings in kde/gnome.

for my greek i had to do more with manually editing the XF86Config file in every gnu/linux distro i used

but i've seen in distrowatch a "special support" for asian langs that not all distros have so I cannot help you as it seems

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monolin

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Registered: 2004-03-06

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Re: help, how to input Chinese in archlinux?

The chinese can always be displayed in mozilla.

i tried to run
LC_ALL=zh_CN.gb2312 LANG=zh_CN.gb2312 mozilla

but when press Ctrl-space, the chinese input method doesn't popup,

i've installed all KDE. Any particular module i need to install? tried to search on archlinux.org for package of chinese and cannot find one....

Currently, archlinux's support for Chinese is nil.
Which input method are you using?
I recommand scim.
So here is how I do it:

Install Chinese fonts
Install scim and input tables (check out scim site for more info)
In /etc/profile, add
export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN

and then you log in X, type scim in a terminal.  All set.

Also, if you can read Chinese ( I think you do), just go to www.linuxsir.com/bbs
and ask Chinese users there.

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nkw

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Registered: 2004-03-26

Posts: 80

Re: help, how to input Chinese in archlinux?

sad to know no chinese input method package is included ... this is the last requirement for me to install archlinux on my pc...

i usually just use the built-in chinese input method of fedora, mandrake... i guess it's chinput. tried to avoid install the extra module on archlinux, afraid it will mess up other built-in packages

mr_ed

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From: Ottawa, ON, Canada

Registered: 2004-04-13

Posts: 72

Re: help, how to input Chinese in archlinux?

nkw,

If you use makepkg, then you won't screw up your system.

The worst-case scenario is after you make the package and run

pacman -A scim-versionnumber.pkg.tar.gz

is if you try and overwrite a file that already exists, in which case pacman will bail and your system will be unchanged.

nkw

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Registered: 2004-03-26

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Re: help, how to input Chinese in archlinux?

thanks, how to makepkg? any existed package?

mr_ed

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From: Ottawa, ON, Canada

Registered: 2004-04-13

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Re: help, how to input Chinese in archlinux?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The … guidelines

No, it's doubtful that there's an existing package.
Just download the source code to scim (in order to get the md5sum, as well as instructions on how to build it).
su to root and run abs, and take the sample PKGBUILD from there and modify it to your needs.
After you've modified your own PKGBUILD for it, just run makepkg.  If everything is successful, you'll end up with a scim-version.pkg.tar.gz file, and then you can install it with pacman -A scim-<version>.pkg.tar.gz