Setup

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 IN PROGRESS

NOTE : This documentation is aimed at helping users under various locales input CJK(Chinese, Japanese and Korean) with SCIM. And, user experiences here are based on Ubuntu 6.06 - Dapper Drake - version.

Dependent Packages

Language

Input Method(s) defaulted

Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)

scim-chewing, scim-pinyin, scim-tables-zh

Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)

scim-chewing, scim-pinyin, scim-tables-zh

Japanese (ja_JP)

scim-anthy

Korean (ko_KR)

scim-hangul
  • scim/skim is default Input Method for Ubuntu/Kubuntu CJK users.
    • scim and scim-gtk2-immodule are installed by ubuntu-desktop.
    • skim and scim-qtimm are installed by kubuntu-desktop.
    • Defaulted IM engine module(s)(ie, scim-hangul) is installed by language-support-??(ie, language-support-ko).
    • im-switch is installed by language-support-??.
  • Additional installation of scim-related packages (This section is based on Dapper Beta version.)
    • For Chinese input :
    • For Japanese input :
    • For Korean input :
      1. scim-tables-ko is not required to install.
      2. scim-qtimm may need to be installed if users want to input Korean with QT/KDE applications under ubuntu-desktop.
      3. Same way, scim-gtk2-immodule may need to be installed for GTK/Gnome applications under kubuntu-desktop.

SCIM Setup

  • The follwings are for GTK/QT_IM_MODULE with scim ((ie, GTK_IM_MODULE=scim), if you prefer to set GT/QT_IM_MODULE with xim, please refer XIM mode below.
  • Dapper's method
  • scim-im.org's method
  • user own setup

Users

  • User-A : Users use one of CJK locales (zh_CN.UTF-8, zh_TW.UTF-8, ja_JP.UTF-8, ko_KR.UTF-8)
  • User-B : Users use en_US.UTF-8
  • User-C : Users use one of other locales than en_US.UTF-8 and CJK locales

Setup Shortcut

Desktop

User

Setup

Ubuntu

User-A

1

User-B

2

User-C

3

Kubuntu

User-A

1

User-B

2

User-C

3

Input Details

  • Trigger keys : Control+space, Shift+space, Zenkaku_Hankaku(on Japanese keyboard), Hangul(on Korean keyboard)

  • (maybe scim/skim's tray icons here)

  • (maybe scim/skim configuration UI screenshot here)

  • Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Korean

XIM mode

Troubleshooting

  • To check scim/skim related packages installed, 

     dpkg -l scim* | grep ii

    and 

     dpkg -l skim

  • To check scim/skim running, 

     ps -A | grep scim

    for ubuntu-desktop and 

     ps -A | grep skim
    for kubuntu-desktop

  • To check scim/skim related env vars, 

     env | grep IM_MODULE --> QT_IM_MODULE=scim, GTK_IM_MODULE=scim

    and 

     env | grep XIM --> XIM_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/scim -d

    and 

     env | grep XMOD  --> XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM

  • To check supported locale for scim, 

     cat ~/.scim/global
    ,

    then look at /SupportedUnicodeLocales, if your locale isn't there add it to the line with comma like as 

     /SupportedUnicodeLocales = en_US.UTF-8,en_UK.UTF-8

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