Re: From a newbie: Mule-UCS installation and configuration

odolfo Medina wrote:

> In my `Linux Mandrake 10.1 Community' system I recently installed
> Emacs CVS 21.3.50.
> In order to input chinese characters with `scim' I was suggested
> to install Mule-UCS. I need to input both Simplified
> and Traditional Chinese
> together with Italian characters (with the accented vocals à, è, ì, etc.).


Kenichi Handa wrote:

> ???  As Emacs 21.3.50 has utf-8 support for CJK characters
> (not fully but within the range of legacy charsets such as
> JIS, GB2312, BIG5, KSC), you don't have to use Mule-UCS.
>
> Mule-UCS is usefull for older Emacs, but not for CVS Emacs.
>
> [...]
>
> But, I found a bug.  CVS emacs
> doesn't auto-load translation tables for CJK charaters on
> decoding an input from XIM by utf-8.
>
> I'll fix it soon, but for the moment, please try to call this
> before you start inputting via SCIM
>
> (utf-translate-cjk-load-tables)
>
> I confirmed that it worked with the latest CVS emacs in my
> environment.


Sorry, Kenichi, but it still doesn't work:
I put into my .emacs the line you suggest:
(utf-translate-cjk-load-tables)
, then opened Emacs with: `$ LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 emacs',
but chinese characters are not input with scim.
I have Mandrake 10.1 Community; my Emacs CVS is very recent:
When I do `M-x emacs-version' I get the following:
GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of 2005-01-22 on
localhost

Thanks,
Rodolfo