[QCLUG] chinese linux

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:31:39PM -0600, Leif Theden wrote:
> Hey gang, ive been racking my brain the past couple weeks trying to
> get chinese to work on my laptop.  im running arch linux.

> ive got basic stuff to work, but as far as a mixed langauge
> envrionment goes, im used the the "windows" way of things.  ie.  it
> just works.

> technically, my problem, is i have no ime.  and fonts dont work well in kde.
> can anybody explain what a locale is, if nothing else?  thanks!

A "locale" is a context that specifies certain settings related to
localization that applications should respect, including things like
language for user interaction, character set, preferred date format, and
sort order.

I'm not likely to be much help with getting Chinese working on your system,
though; I have a general notion of how input methods are intended to work in
X, but no practically useful experience with the Chinese xims.

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