Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Unable to use SCIM to import CJK languages into LibreOffice on 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10

On 02/21/2011 04:18 PM, M Henri Day wrote:
> 2011/2/21 NoOp <glgxg@sbcglobal.net>
>
> > On 02/20/2011 07:39 AM, M Henri Day wrote:
> > > I recently had occasion to reinstall 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10 (n b, not
> > because
> > > of a problem in Ubuntu itself, but because I replaced Windows Vista with
> > > Windows 7 on the Windows side of this dual-boot machine and thereafter
> > > failed in my attempts to restore GRUB2) and after doing so, noticed that
> > no
> > > matter what I tried, I was unable to get SCIM to import CJK languages
> > into a
> > > Writer text. Same problem, of course, when using OOo ; I'm using the
> > latest
> > > (Swedish) 3.3 version in both cases. SCIM works fine with other
> > applications
> > > on Ubuntu, like the gedit text editor or Gmail's compose. In contrast to
> > the
> > > situation on Ubuntu, I have no problem using the Microsoft IMEs to import
> > > these languages into LO or OOo texts. However, I don't want to be forced
> > to
> > > run Windows 7 in order to write, e g, a Chinese or Japanese text in a LO
> > or
> > > OOo document. Is it possible to get SCIM and LO to play nice with each
> > other
> > > and in that event, does anyone have any suggestions as to how to go about
> > > doing so ?...
> > >
> > > Henri
> >
> > Perhaps try iBus instead?
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ibus
>
> NoOp, thanks for your suggestion. Alas, I found myself unable to get IBus to
> work ; for example, after installing IBus according to the instructions on
> the Ubuntu Community page and adding Chinese and Japan, I didn't find «IBus
> Preferences» under «System» → «Preferences», nor did «Ctrl + Space» start
> IBus in, e g, LibreOffice, despite my having selected «ibus» as my keyboard
> input method under «System» → «Administration» → «Language Support». So I'm
> still trying to get SCIM to work. The thing that surprised me with respect
> to Christian's advice above to set SCIM as my «global default» was that I
> thought I had already  done so ; i e, I had edited my profile under /etc by
> adding the following :
> # SCIM
> export XMODIFIERS='@im=SCIM'
> export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"
> export XIM_PROGRAM="scim -d"
> export QT_IM_MODULE="scim"
> scim -d
>
> I had also ensured that the following lines appeared in /etc/scim/global :
> /SupportedUnicodeLocales = sv_SE.utf8,en_US.UTF-8. Previously, these
> measures have sufficed to make SCIM work with OOo/LO....

Henri,

SCIM is AFAIK really outdated. IBus is certainly the better choice. I'm
using Ubuntu 10.04, 32-bit hence things might be a bit different. I got
IBus to work pretty easily by adding it at System -> Preferences ->
Startup Applications. After restarting the desktop you should have an
IBus tool in the system tray.

In general, it might be easier to get help at the IBus user forum:
http://groups.google.com/group/ibus-user?pli=1. I guess there should
also be resources with Ubuntu handling that kind of topics.

Last but not least the forum of the Beijing Linux User Group should also
be worth a try:
http://www.beijinglug.org/index.php?option=com_kunena&view=listcat&catid=0&func=listcat&Itemid=138
(registration required).

Best regards,
Peter


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