[Fedora-i18n-list] Typing Chinese while keeping the application in English

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Daniel,

Tks for your advice.

Login Gnome (language tried : Trad/Simplified Chinese)
> Gedit > Right click > Input Method 

"Internet/Intranet Input Method" already selected. 
Input method already loaded.  GIMLET applet not found

'Ctrl+Space bar' switching between Pinyin/Canjie and
English.  Chinese input is possible

My problems were

1) If I can't find a Chinese character needed on the
first page I can't switch to another page
(additional/following page).  This happens on all
programs, such as, Kedit, Kmail, Gedit, OOo Writer,
etc.

2) The contents in the Menu/tool-bar on OOo Writer
disappear, if login Trad/Simplified Chinese, leaving
only English characters there (short form
description).  I don't need Chinese menu.  English
menu can serve me.

I don't know how to fix them.  I have another FC2 box
which does not have those problems.  It is quite funny
to me.

I have posted those problems before without response. 
Can you help.

TIA

B.R.
Stephen

 --- "Daniel S.K. Yek 叶盛刚"
<danieyek at alumni.washington.edu> wrote: 
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 23:45, Stephen Liu wrote:
> > 
> > Login GNOME  'American English'
> > 
> > Niether can I find "Internet/Intranet Input
> Method"
> > with 'Right_click' on GNOME desktop
> > 
> > Nor can I find "Input Method" menu
> 
> Not right-click on GNOME desktop, but right-click on
> gedit or
> Evolution's email compose edit box.
> 
> Then, choose Input Methods / Internet/Intranet Input
> Method. The GIMLET
> applet will appear on the panel (task bar). In my
> case, it shows
> "English". Clicking on the applet, do whatever
> necessary to select
> Simplified Chinese, then use pinyin to input Chinese
> characters.
> 
> Don't use space bar while entering Chinese
> character, cause if you hit
> space bar, the applet will switch to show 英文,
> which indicates that
> pinyin input is disabled. To reenable it, click on
> GIMLET applet and
> select Chinese again.
> 
> To disable pinyin (to enter English words), hit
> space bar, or Ctrl-Space
> Bar, or click on GIMLET applet and select English.
> 
> This facility is not user-friendly yet, but at least
> now, I can use it
> effectively, after getting to know its bizarre
> behavior.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> -- 
> Daniel.