I was using Chinese inputmethod (SCIM, UIM, GCIN) to write Chinese under pdaXrom Beta3. But since Beta4/r121 upwards I can never get the Chinese inputmethods working, despite what other users' report of success (but without much detail). Probably it's due to the incompatibillity between the inputmethod programs and the libraries they use (mainly GTK/GTK+2 and glibc vs. libiconv).
Font in this platform is not an issue because the system simply uses truetype fonts as in desktop environments.
I have started using OpenBSD/Zaurus now. Everything aligns with the standard across different hardware/architectures. In fact my very next plan is to compile SCIM and/or zh-xcin for OBSD. I don't see any special reason why they will fail, particularly because they are already in the OpenBSD port collections. Or else there is still a way to use other BSD and Linux binaries, so more solutions are available.
You may also want to have a look at my (another) home forum, where I am one of the moderators:
http://www.pumb.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=15
, where people use Mandarin (official form), Cantonese (common form in Hong Kong) and English interchangeably. If you have problems with the Chinese (written Cantonese) there, people will automatically switch to English to help you out.
Hope that helps.
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Helps a lot, thanks!
a few things....
are scim, uim, gcim, compatible with eachother? Can I install them together,
or is it better to try to just use one at a time?
Under b4+ I was seeing immediate segfault when trying to configure scim.
On pdaxii13, I'm able to get scim to load; but the icon in the tray doesn't seem
responsive, most of the time.
None of the hotkeys seem to work in any application I've tried (abiword, leafpad)
and after manually switching to chinese input method, typing on the keyboard
only produces english output.
I haven't found a "standard" set of fonts, though, some other forums suggest "fireflysung.ttf".
I've installed this in /usr/share/fonts, and fc-list seems to find it,
but again, using AbiWord, etc, with this font, I don't seem to get any Chinese output.
I think I may have the locales set up wrong, or missing; I really *haven't* worked
with non-US-english locales under linux before, so I'm not entirely sure what I need.
I've just started learning Mandarin, so my competence in reading/writing is close to
zero; I'm hoping to improve. The Pumb forum looks neat, but I can't (yet) make heads nor tails of it.
I'm starting with a base install of pdaXii13 on akita; I'm not sure what packages to load on top of the base.
If you have any ideas, or if you'd just recommend diving in to the PUMB board; I'll try that.