Re: Chinese XIM and GTK+ 2

[Hidetoshi Tajima <hidetoshi tajima sun com>]

I cannot do exactly the same with chinese locales and a chinput, But,

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 gedit

seems to work in japanese locale and with a kinput2.

Do you see a warning message like:
 (gedit:11891): Gtk-WARNING **: Loading IM context type 'xim' failed
?
If you don't see this, then try with "GTK_IM_MODULE=xim".

Regards,
Toshi

Stefan Baums wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> the problem du jour is: When running a GTK+ 2 application (I tried
> gedit and gimp) under
>
>   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>   LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8
>
> I am not able to enter Chinese characters via an XIM program
> (chinput, but I also tried others).  Why do I have different
> settings for LANG and LC_CTYPE?  Well, ideally I would like both
> to be en_US.UTF-8, but chinput refuses to serve characters to
> applications that do not run under a Chinese (zh_X.Y) locale.  Why
> don't I set everything to zh_TW.UTF-8?  Because I don't want menus
> etc. to be in Chinese (just beginning to learn the language).
> When I do experimentally run e.g.
>
>   LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF gedit
>
> everything (almost, see other email) works.  This looks like
> something that GTK+ 2 is getting wrong.  Does anybody know how to
> fix it?
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
>
>