I have installed SCIM in Fedora CORE 5 and it looks good. I can switch input by CTRL-BARSPACE. But I cannot input chinese in all applications. I can see the charaters in SCIM bar, but when I finish inputing, or some english charaters like TZF;EaG leaving there. What's wrong?

Do you have the appropriate Chinese fonts installed?

Can you input Chinese in a simple application like gedit or kwrite?

No. I can't type chinese in every app. I think something wrong with a global setting

Make sure the following packages are installed, you don't have your distribution indicated which makes helping a little more difficult, this infromation I have quoted below comes from www.ubuntuguide.org

This works on all Debian based systems though.

Dear all,

After struggling to find the answer everywhere, I found it at this URL :

http://phpxref.org/docs/debian/ch09.en.html

1) RECONFIGURE the consoles to ensure US, for the other console types you will need to add it in later in /etc/scim/global
(skip to Step (5) if you are using non-US locale)


dpkg-reconfigure --priority=high console-data


dpkg-reconfigure --priority=high xserver-xorg


2) CHECK to see the locales on your account by typing in terminal
user@debian $ locale

3) INSTALL SCIM

- Install the Japanese input tool package scim-anthy with its recommended packages such as im-switch.

- Execute "im-switch -c" from user's shell and select "scim".

- Relogin to user's account.

- Verify setting by "im-switch -l".

- Setup input method and mode by right clicking GUI toolbar. (You can reduce menu choice of input method)

- Start SCIM input method by CTRL-SPACE

4) ENJOY !!!

5) USE THIS OPTION FOR NON-US LOCALE :

In order to start SCIM under the non-CJK and non-en_US locale, you need to add list of those locales in UTF-8 to the ~/.scim/global or /etc/scim/global file as:

/SupportedUnicodeLocales = en_US.UTF-8,en_GB.UTF_8,fr_FR.UTF-8