tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874663.post553046073859041048..comments2023-06-02T09:12:01.799-03:00Comments on FLOSS & Cia.: Kiel oni skribas ... ? Typing Esperanto characters in Ubuntuhdantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17371423835431603557noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874663.post-21216696401234355292008-03-28T14:01:00.000-03:002008-03-28T14:01:00.000-03:00A very good article!To prevent a reset of the upti...A very good article!<BR/><BR/>To prevent a reset of the uptime (no ... I wantet to keep my screen-session and rebooting is the Windows-Way) if created the File<BR/><BR/>/etc/X11/Xsession.d/00x11-common_set-gtk-im<BR/><BR/>So I only had to restart X (Alt-Ctrl-BkSp).<BR/><BR/>The content is, as you described above<BR/><BR/>GTK_IM_MODULE=xim<BR/><BR/>and I added (not sure if it's necessary)<BR/><BR/>export GTK_IM_MODULE<BR/><BR/>I like to use the X Input Method because of a system-wide configuration and especially because of entries in my ~/XCompose like the following<BR/><BR/><Multi_key> <b> <t> <w> : "by the way"<BR/><BR/>For a good description of XCompose see <A HREF="http://cyberborean.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/compose-key-magic/" REL="nofollow">http://cyberborean.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/compose-key-magic/</A>Redneckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15073408496574231174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874663.post-70170696125427545212008-03-17T20:14:00.000-03:002008-03-17T20:14:00.000-03:00A patch was submitted for GTK+ that updated the li...A patch was submitted for GTK+ that updated the list of compose sequences to the level provided in Xorg. This means that all compose sequences with dead_cedilla are available now.<BR/><BR/>See http://simos.info/blog/archives/661<BR/>on how to apply to your system, and more importantly test the patch.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13948844017451873586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874663.post-16985700508917122572007-06-28T23:27:00.000-03:002007-06-28T23:27:00.000-03:00Hi,Thanks for the comment. I've experimented with ...Hi,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the comment. I've experimented with SCIM here.<BR/><BR/>Like XIM, SCIM is another input method available for gtk+ (actually, SCIM is extensible, so it's a whole set of input methods). When you select the Chinese language setup as default, your whole system becomes "localized" to the Chinese language, and gtk knows that.<BR/><BR/>Then gtk maps the language that you are using to a predefined input method that is supposed to work with that language. For example, my system is configured to Portuguese, so, if I don't edit my configuration by hand, gtk automatically sets the input method to "cedilla". It's as if gtk went into my environment and automatically set<BR/><BR/> GTK_IM_MODULE=cedilla.<BR/><BR/>Similarly, in your system, it defaults to<BR/><BR/> GTK_IM_MODULE=scim.<BR/><BR/>SCIM has a default input method that is very powerful, and it allows Esperanto characters.<BR/><BR/>You may use SCIM even without configuring your system to Chinese. Open gedit, right click in the text box, and select SCIM. Now type compose+^+c. You should get a ĉ (you may need to set you keyboard to standard US, or something). Whenever SCIM is being used as the input method you can do this. Similarly, whenever XIM is used as the input method you can do this. Then we go back to firefox and it doesn't work, because it doesn't have this pop-up menu, that allows you to change the input method. We need the environment variable.<BR/><BR/>Conclusion: if the input method that is mapped to your language accepts Esperanto characters you are lucky. If it is not mapped, you'll need to manually edit your environment file. The problem with gtk is that the "default" input method (which would be the input method that most people use) doesn't accept Esperanto characters (neither does "cedilla", which is the one I use). It would be very simple to fix this, but gtk people completelly ignore it.hdantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17371423835431603557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874663.post-72996083487111488732007-06-27T23:22:00.000-03:002007-06-27T23:22:00.000-03:00I also had problems typing in EO, but I managed to...I also had problems typing in EO, but I managed to do so without editing anything. Granted my solution is just as annoying.<BR/><BR/>I enabled the Compose Key in the Keyboard menu, using one of the menu keys I don't use. I then enabled the Esperanto language in the language settings. Now, I don't know if this last step is actually necessary, because you still can't type in EO. But because I'm living in China at the moment, I also had the Chinese language enabled.<BR/><BR/>With Chinese comes SCIM, assuming the "enable support for complex characters" is checked. Now with SCIM running the whole time, I can type EO using my compose key. Sed kial mi povas skribi sole kiam mi uzas la ĉinan?<BR/><BR/>"compose + shift6 + c" = ĉ and that works anywhere. And not just EO, anything in UTF-8, e.g., ⓚ.<BR/><BR/>The problem with this is, if I take away the Chinese language and/or SCIM, I can no longer type in EO, despite not actually using SCIM to type.<BR/><BR/>So if they could allow the compose key to work all the time, everything would be fine. But because they only enable the extra keys when SCIM is running, that's a nuisance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com