Problems typing foreign languages?(was Arabic Fonts Problem)

[vivia]

Hi,

I ended up removing scim and using uim instead. Works like a charm.

I could not solve the freezing keyboard issue with scim, and this was the main reason why I removed it and went for uim. It's way less buggy anyway, and you don't need the XMODIFIERS trick!

[kakaroto]

humm.. ok thanks vivia!
So, we can basically summarize this whole thread with "use UIM instead of SCIM" ? wow.. what a waste of text ! :p

[berdux]

hello!

so i uninstalled SCIM and installed UIM. the problem with the freezing keyboard has gone. i can write japanese now on most windows, except amsn and skype (maybe others as well, haven't tested it yet). i should search this more before posting but i really do not have the time now (again :S). just reporting my status
i will find some time tomorrow and find the solution to this, i think i saw it someplace when i was searching for my first problem

ありがとうございます。



(ps. by the way, i just noticed, vivia are you greek?)

[afv]

I just uninstalled SCIM and installed UIM and seems to me (maybe I didn't test enough) that the problem with the accented letters (áéíóú…) appearing with a delay is gone! Thanks!!

(It also seems to be quicker when pasting some text (sometimes the text pasted took some seconds to appear, before this) )

[fhoffmann]

I was having the exact problem as berdux-- losing keyboard functionality when keeping an IM window open and the other person would enter or leave conversation. While replacing SCIM with UIM does indeed avoid this problem now I am unable to type Japanese on aMSN, also like berdux... When I'm in an aMSN window the keyboard shortcuts I have assigned to switch between languages seem to be ignored by UIM.. If I manually select the input type via the UIM toolbar I still get my default input, which is english. Am I overlooking a simple setting?

[vivia]

berdux: ότι θα βοηθούσα Έλληνα να γράφει Ιαπωνικά στο aMSN, δε θα το φανταζόμουν!!

@berdux, fhoffmann: Which distribution are you using? Can you try typing Japanese in xterm? If not, maybe the problem is that the uim-xim bridge is not installed. Unfortunately I cannot remember by heart how to install it and I cannot find the nice howto that I had. You could at least try running uim-xim manually before starting aMSN.

[fhoffmann]

vivia -
I am using Ubuntu, Jaunty... I discovered I had a few references to SCIM left over:
im-switch -c then choose one of the UIM options
now UIM recognizes my keyboard shortcuts and Japanese and Korean text input work with aMSN. The only problem I have is-- as I type, instead of showing the hiragana or katakana I see boxes then when I press enter it shows the correct font... I suspect it is just that... an issue with a font. I will post back here when I figure what I'm missing incase anyone else has this problem. It would be great if we could figure out all these little hangs people are having when using multi-lingual setups with aMSN and throw it to the wiki... It was a bit annoying to read through 4 pages of posts then see that the workaround is to use some other software...  :lol:

[Stian1979]

I tryed scim and refuse to work on amsn and openoffice.
uim don't seam to have mps traditional chinese.
I'm back to fighting with scim

[setzer]

Stian1979 - Well, I suppose that u followed the entire topic and is still having problems. I's been some time since I last read this topic so I don't remember everything that it says. However, I suggest you to try using iBus as your default IM. I recently swtched to iBus and didn't find any problems with amsn. In fact, I didn't configure anything to make it work, except for exporting XMODIFIERS, GTK_IM_MODULE, QT_IM_MODULE and TK_IM_MODULE. You should give it a shot...

[vivia]

Problem with accented characters getting misplace is fixed: http://www.amsn-project.net/forums/index.php/topic,7610.0.html

[vivia]

I just found two workarounds to the problem with scim input freezing: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scim/+bug/66104