a wanderer in transit » input http://www.li-ping.com/transit Tue, 25 May 2010 12:38:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Chinese Input Support http://www.li-ping.com/transit/2009/11/02/chinese-input-support/ http://www.li-ping.com/transit/2009/11/02/chinese-input-support/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:14:22 +0000 ping http://www.li-ping.com/transit/?p=60 Without switching to a Chinese locale (or having your menus and stuff switched to Chinese). These steps worked for me in Karmic.
  1. Go to System > Administration > Language Support > Install / Remove Languages
  2. Select Chinese (simplified) and check all the components available
  3. From Synaptic Package Manager, install scim and scim-pinyin
  4. Start Terminal and run im-switch -c and choose “scim-bridge”
  5. Reboot
  6. Use control-space to toggle the Chinese/pinyin IME 就可以写中文了！

Chinese IME in action

Help gleaned from here mainly.

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