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Idea #285: More user-friendly SCIM language input method

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #273: Better Multilingual support and better CJK fonts.
Written by foe the 29 Feb 08 at 00:15. Category: Others. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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SCIM / SKIM is great for input of oriental languages (ie. CJK: Chinese, Japanese, Korean)... too bad that most of the times it doesn't work properly! From my experience scim / skim is difficult to configure and not always loads correctly, especially if some changes (or updates) are made under language support or keyboard layouts settings.

EDIT: Voters: please head over to idea #273 and vote for it (the link is above under "duplicate idea", i guess we should merge the two to get more votes and so the problem fixed!

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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #285
Written by foe the 29 Feb 08 at 00:15.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #285 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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Graf wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 08:29
Personally, the "battle to get SCIM working" is one of my least favorite parts of a new install.

OSX and even Windows do this relatively well.

PreviousN wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 13:20
I hate scrim. My gf is Japanese and I couldn't get it figured out on my desktop computer. So she actually opens virtualbox and uses windows within it just for regular web browsing for Japanese input.


And on my laptop, which I did manage to configure correctly, now has problems where some programs don't accept input. I have to right click and go "change input options" in open office save dialog boxes, and when I make a new folder in nautilus the same thing happens.

Its annoying.

FIX SCRIM!!!!

Loïc wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 13:05
Can somebody add the words Chinese Japanese Korean and CJK to the title or description, to give the idea more visibility, since normal users wouldn't know the name of the input method (scim) just that they want to input one of these languages ?

anselme wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 09:29
Oh yes, SCIM is so.... unpredictible :(

Make it stable, and easy to use, please :(


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