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

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
writes:
> I started Emacs with `$ LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 emacs -Q' and
> found   myself   in   the   *scratch*  buffer.   I   typed
> `(utf-translate-cjk-load-tables)',  then  put  the  cursor
> after that  expression and did  C-x C-e (is this  what you
> meant  by evaluate?), and  in the  echo area  appeared the
> message: "UTF-8" . Then  I activated scim with C-space and
> tried to put chinese characters, but I always got squares:

Squares?  I've thought that you are getting some garbage
characters.  Anyway,

> 

the above line is correct "Chinese", and now I found why you
see them in "squares".  By default, utf-translate-cjk-mode
try to translate CJK character at first to Japanese
charsets, and if it fails, to Chinese charsets.  You can
change that order by switching to Chiense-GB or Chiense-BIG5
language environment by using the command C-x RET l.

>>  By the  way, have  you tried any  of Emacs'  one chinese
>>  input methods?

> Yes indeed:  have a look  at: http://tug.org/interest.html
> in the  section `Multi-lingual typesetting  in scripts and
> languages  around  the   world',  subsection  `ChiTeX  for
> Chinese typesetting; Chinese directory on CTAN.
>  See also this recipe  for getting started with ChiTeX and
>  Emacs.'

> . But  now I'd  like to  use scim in  order to  input both
> simplified and traditional chinese in one file and besides
> to have the possibility of typing chinese characters while
> navigating in Internet.

???  I don't understand why you mention ChiTeX in this
context.

What I meant by "Emacs' chinese input methods" means the
ones that you can activate by C-\ or C-u C-\.  M-x
list-input-methods lists several chinese input methods
including pinyin.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
[email protected]