Re: unusual characters in OOo

Hi,
  scim-m17n (with it's required packages) can support many languages, 
including Hebrew and Arabic. You must try it.

Regards
James Su

hermanmeester wrote:
>
>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>Van:	Mike FABIAN [mailto:[email protected]]
>Verzonden:	do 23-6-2005 23:51
>
>As you are using SCIM anyway to input Korean, why not use
>it to input the Dutch special characters as well?
>
>You can use the M17N-t-latn-pre input method for that.
>Install scim-m17n, m17n-lib, m17n-db, libotf, and workcut.
>Restart your X11 session.
>
>   Thank you Mike,
>
>   So far I installed m17n-db, libotf, and wordcut, but for m17n-lib (which is needed by scim-m17n) my system (in the root console) says it needs:
>
>libanthy.so.0 and
>libanthydic.so.0
>
>I don't know how old that is, but is it equivalent to
>
>ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/m17n/9.1/i586/anthy-6024-1.1.i586 and/or
>ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/m17n/9.1/i586/anthy-devel-6024-1.1.i586 ?
>
>?
>
>Now, if you select the M17N-t-latn-pre input method in the
>SCIM panel, you can get these Dutch characters by typing
>
>    "i -> ï
>    "e -> ë
>    "a -> ä
>
>(left side is what you type, right side is what is inserted,
>for a complete list of the key-combinations offered by
>the M17N-t-latn-pre input method, have a look at the file
>/usr/share/m17n/latn-pre.mim).
>
>SCIM also has a "raw code" input method where you can insert
>the unicode code point.
>
>   I see that "RAW CODE" input method in the little menu (at "other"); so do you mean that if you insert the code and enter, the character you want will show up? I'll check that right away. I could learn those codes by heart ;-)
>
>In the SCIM setup dialog, you can define hotkeys to switch between
>input methods. I.e. you may define key combinations to switch between
>your favorite Korean input method and the M17N-t-latn-pre input
>method.
>You can also use compose to input these characters.  "compose" is also
>supported by SCIM, to use it while SCIM is running, switch the SCIM
>panel of (default Hotkeys "Shift+Space" or "Control+Space").
>
>The Compose Keybindings for the Characters you mentioned are:
>
>    Multi_key " i -> ï
>    Multi_key " e -> ë
>    Multi_key " a -> ä
>
>The default binding for Multi_key on SuSE Linux is
>Shift+RightControl.
>
>For a complete list of compose keybindings see:
>
>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose
>
>
>  Just another thing:
>
>   So basically your idea is, why not try putting everything in SCIM, if one is already using that? It does sound very attractive, because SCIM works really fine.
>Do you think Arabic and Hebrew can also be put in the SCIM-panel? (My panel also mentions Russian, and even Amharic!)
>Problem could be that Hebrew and Arabic are written from right to left, of course. Could this mess things up in SCIM?
>I'm now typing Hebrew by pasting
>
>setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,il
>
>in the shell after every reboot. Then, double shift gives Hebrew. It "overrides" SCIM (double shift turns the little scroll-lock light on; then you cannot use SCIM).
>
>I don't mind doing that every time, and I don't use Arabic much (for which I didn't have an imput method yet) so it's not really a priority; but would you know if ftp://ftp.suse ~ m17n/9.1/i586/ has any ready-to-install hebrew and arabic scim packages?
>
>Or maybe I have to ask, where can you see easily what all these packages are about?
>And if I add all sorts of SCIM-packages, do I have to modify the ~/.xim file at any time?
>I do have the hebrew and arabic fonts, not many, but they're not too ugly.
>
>Thanks and best regards,
>Herman
>
>
>  


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