how to make user account partially bi-lingual?

[Ed Greshko]

On 04/17/13 09:03, William Mattison wrote:
> (Fedora-18; all desktops)
>
> A user needs all
> * menu entries, buttons, prompts, messages, application icon labels, etc.
> within
> * desktops (Gnome, KDE, Xfce, etc.), all LibreOffice applications, vi, etc.
> to be English.
>
> But he needs to be able to both
> * enter and view
> text in both
> * English and  simplified Chinese
> within
> * vi, all LibreOffice applications, internet e-mail (Yahoo mail, gmail, etc.), etc.
> where most files/messages will contain a mix of English and simplified Chinese.
>

Run "im-chooser" and then select ibus as the input method.  You'll then need to configure the input methods to add whatever method you want for Simplified Chinese.

I'm pretty sure this gets you want you want since you seem most in need of inputting in Chinese.  Viewing shouldn't be an issue.

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