On Saturday 16 October 2004 07:34, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi folks, > > How are you making Debian into UTF-8 and multilingual/multi-locale > system while switching between normal gnome and Xfce? So far, I did > not find this trivial.
Well, in my case, I found SCIM to be the best solution. I don't need to care about locales any more, because SCIM doesn't care about locales, as long as you use any UTF-8 locale as default. I just switch on SCIM which input method I prefer and can insert CJK into any UTF-8 aware application. The locale setting only refers to which language I want to have to display the windowmanager and system messages. GTK2 apps and mozilla, ooo etc. need to have LC_CTYPE to be set to any CJK UTF-8 locale to accept SCIM input. If you want to try SCIM, compile it from source (www.freedesktop.org/Software/scim/), the debian packages don't work for me. So, as I prefer my system to be in english, I use en_US.UTF-8 as main locale and zh_TW.UTF-8 as LC_CTYPE. XMODIFIERS has to be set to @im=SCIM. The SCIM approach is in my opinion the only useful one, since the locale should only reflect which language you prefer and in which country you are. It should have nothing to do with input methods, as long as your system is UTF-8. Just my 2 conts. Cheers Arne -- Arne GÃtje (éçè) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Spam catcher. Address might change in future!) PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/685D1E8C Fingerprint: 2056 F6B7 DEA8 B478 311F 1C34 6E9F D06E 685D 1E8C Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.