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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

• 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 (plus scim) 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 : create 75scim file under /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ with following lines

     export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
     export XIM_PROGRAM="/usr/bin/scim -d"
     export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
     export QT_IM_MODULE=scim 

• user own setup

  • with im-switch installed, type im-switch command in the format of "im-switch [-z <YOUR_LANG>] -s <INPUT_METHOD>" at the terminal prompt so it looks like:

       im-switch -z en_US -s scim-hangul 

    which creates en_US file into ~/.xinput.d/
  • without im-switch installed
    1. system-wide : same as scim-im.org's method

    2. for gnome desktop, create (or add) the following lines to ~/.gnomerc file

            export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
            export XIM_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/scim -d
            export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
            export QT_IM_MODULE=scim 

    3. for kde desktop

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

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 

Useful Links

• CJK LoCoTeam's Webforum, mailing list, and irc channels found on ["ChineseTeam"], ["JapaneseTeam"], and ["KoreanTeam"] wiki pages.

• When you report a bug of scim/skim to [https://launchpad.net/malone Malone], subscribe [https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-cjk-testers Ubuntu CJK Testers].

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