I just solved this on my own, rather serendipitously. Right click in the text entry field of the conversation window, Input Method-->Windows IME, problem solved. Sorry for the trouble!
...and happy new year. Thanks, Lee On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Lee Kohl <leekohlbrad...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a strange problem. I just started using Pidgin today and loved it > until I tried typing Chinese. My setup: > > Win XP > Pidgin 2.6.4 > Sogou Pinyin (Chinese entry tool I use daily) > > Is there something special about the text entry area on the conversation > window that would make it seem like no text was being entered somehow? > Because when I type Chinese, the IME character entry software cannot tell > where my cursor is entering text, so it doesn't know where to place the box > which lets the user choose what Chinese characters to input. > > Normally the box I'm mentioning appears just below the place you're typing, > so you can see it easily. In Pidgin, it appears far away at the bottom of > the screen, and in my case, obscured by something else (objectdock). > > This must be pretty confusing so I'm gonna include some links to > screenshots: (Don't read the text, it's not up to date wrt the screenshot) > > http://bayimg.com/NAJkoAaCE > The green box is the box which shows which characters are available based > on what you've typed... you type something, choose the characters, type > something, choose the characters, that's how it works. In this shot, the box > is near the point at which text is being entered--the correct spot. > > http://bayimg.com/cajlbAacE > The second link shows how in Pidgin, the box has dropped to the default > location at the bottom of the screen. The IME software does this when it > doesn't know where text is being entered. It seems pretty ok in the picture, > but actually that is the exact spot where Objectdock sits and the IME falls > behind the always-on-top dock. > > Now that I've talked your ear off... any ideas? > > Thanks a million! Save me from MSN which was eating 150+MB... :) > > Lee >
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