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Can somebody who has setup SCIM or another CJK input program please point me in the right direction?

Start it in your ~/.xinitrc or ~/.Xclients or ~/.Xsession or whatever X init files your system use. Be sure to setup some environment variables properly, such as GTK_IM_MODULE and XMODIFIERS. And also make sure that the locale is correct.

If you're on a Debian box (or maybe derivatives like Ubuntu as well), you may 'sudo aptitude install im-switch'; this will somewhat automate and manage the setup in a wm-agnostic way. (I use this for Japanese text through SCIM.)

"Max Rabkin" writes:

On Dec 6, 2007 11:23 PM, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote:

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And also make sure that the locale is correct.

Does that mean I must set my locale to KO to write Korean? Because I can't do that: I don't understand enough Korean for my programs to run in it. But I'm learning, so I like to be able to type in it sometimes.

It depends on the input method. Usually it isn't necessary. Setting it to be what_EVER.UTF-8 may work. Otherwise, LANG=what_EVER.UTF-8 and only LC_CTYPE=ko_KR.UTF-8 should definitely do the trick. I use fcitx to input Chinese, and en_US.UTF-8 is enough for it to process all the characters, except some special symbols that depend on particular encoding. Xiao-Yong -- c/* __o/* <\ * (__ */\ <