How to enable east asian languages on 6.2.1

**kcah** · 07-22-2010, 06:43 PM

I am new to knoppix, but this is the only thing the runs great on all the machines I have encounter so far.

If I could just enable the east asian language support (chinese in particular), it would be perfect.

if some one ask this before... I am sorry... i search the forums and found nothing...
(need to improve my searching skills >.<)

**kl522** · 07-22-2010, 08:21 PM

Originally Posted by kcah

If I could just enable the east asian language support (chinese in particular), it would be perfect.

Follow the instruction here will be good :-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Mu...ian%29#Chinese

For chinese input, I use 'fcitx'.

**kcah** · 07-22-2010, 08:32 PM

Originally Posted by kl522

Follow the instruction here will be good :-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Mu...ian%29#Chinese

For chinese input, I use 'fcitx'.

omegad omegad!!! it worked!!!! I am now officially a very happy linux user!!! ALL Hail Knoppix and kl522!!!!

**kcah** · 07-23-2010, 07:05 PM

hmm...
I also want traditional chinese input... *limitless greed* (part of human nature)
what do you recommand for that...
pingyin is fine... but i want traditional chinese fonts

**kl522** · 07-23-2010, 09:55 PM

You hava a choice of various software such as scim, ibus, fcitx ..... All these support pinyin and traditional chinese. I believe all of them have debian packages for it. Just bring up Synaptic to install it.

**kcah** · 08-06-2010, 06:52 PM

i try to install ibus and i won't install T.T... i installed scim.... but it won't lanch T.T.... i guess fcitx is next then...

**kl522** · 08-07-2010, 05:05 AM

What is T.T ? I have used all of these before:- scim, ibus, and fcitx. I am pretty sure that all work with traditional chinese. Currently I am using fcitx. If you cannot get it to work, likely it's the setup problem because knoppix is not exactly the same as debian or ubuntu - the debian packages may miss a few steps from setting things up completely. There will be environment variables need to be setup and some programs need to be running in /etc/xdg/autostart.

**mecho** · 08-07-2010, 08:14 AM

Are you just trying to type in Chinese ? Why don't you simply use:

setxkbmap -option '' 'us,cn' 'grp:alt_shift_toggle'

With this you will be able to switch between us and chinese using Alt+Shift
If this works for you, simply put this command in /home/knoppix/.xsessionrc and you are done. You don't need fancy programs just to use keyboard