Re: Configuring scim-m17n

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> I installed scim-tables, scim-m17n, (and all dependencies, trusting Synaptic).
> Now, at least the m17n-part doesn't work in Scim.

What do you mean by "doesn't work"?

Can't you select the M17N input methods? Or can you select them but
they don't work as expected for you?

If you look at

    Scim Setup  IMEngine  Global Setup

you should find the M17N input methods listed there as well.
For example, under "Arabic (Egypt)" you should find 2 input methods:

    M17N-ar-kbd   (this is from m17n-lib)
    Arabic        (this is from scim-tables)

> In Scim Setup > IMEngine > Generic Table > Table Management, I see that for
> example "Arabic" is in the file /usr/share/scim/tables/Arabic.bin
> Now I want to install the m17n input methods too, so in the Setup I try
> "Install".

This is only for tables supported by "scim-tables", not for m17n.

> In the directory /usr/share/m17n/... there are files such as zh-pinyin.mim,
> latn-pre.mim, he-kbd.mim, or CP1258.map and many others.
> Trying to install one of these, I read "Error - Failed to load the
> table file!"

Because these tables are not in the format used by "scim-tables".
The input methods in /usr/share/m17n have a different format.

> I guess the directory /usr/share/m17n/ is not usable to Scim?

It is usable by SCIM, but via the scim-m17n, not via scim-tables.

> I tried copying the files in /usr/share/m17n to /usr/share/scim, but to no
> effect. Same "Error - Failed to load the table file!"

Leave these files where they were, /usr/share/m17n is the correct
place for these files.

There should be no special setup necessary, if all needed packages are
installed, it should work out of the box.

-- 
Mike FABIAN   <[email protected]>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian



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