Re: scim in 10.3 producing ascii7 mojibake

PILCH Hartmut <[email protected]> さんは書きました:

>> > I can still input normally into firefox but not into xterm (or xterm-based
>> > mutt) nor into emacs.
>> > 
>> > Whenever I try to input something there, I get a string of plain 7bit
>> > characters, including control characters, e.g. "C$" for "ä", "C6" for "ö",
>> > "C<" for "ü", "g" + bell sound for "睡眠", "*c" + line deletion for "かな".
>  
> It is now alright.  I can input multiple languages, including zh and ja, into
> xterm and emacs as well as everything else.
>
> I had to remove the scim-bridge package.

Strange because I usually have the scim-bridge package installed and
don’t run into that problem.

Can you please try if you can reproduce the problem if you install
scim-bridge again?

> Reports like
>
>   scim-bridge経由で問題なく入力できている状態
>   http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-ja/2007-10/msg00046.html
>
> give the impression that some people may not be able to input Japanese without
> this package.  The docs didn't tell me anything about what scim-bridge is good
> for, and I don't know how this package, which seems to be dangerous for some
> people and vital for others, found its way into my installation -- I don't
> remember having selected it.

It mainly solves problems with incompatibilities between different
versions of libstdc++. See section “What is this for?”
in

    /usr/share/doc/packages/scim-bridge/doc/developer/introduction.html

or for example comment #18 in 

    http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=353251

Sometimes it appears to solve input problems in Firefox and OpenOffice
as well, especially when 32bit versions of these applications are used
on a 64bit system.

In the latest updates for the acroread 8.1.2 packages for STABLE/Factory
and openSUSE 10.3, we have deleted the libstdc++ which comes with the
acroread tarball. Then, acroread uses the systemwide libstdc++, i.e. the
same which is used by scim and the compatibility problem with scim
disappears. I tested that acroread 8.1.2 with libstdc++ deleted works
fine with both, the “scim” module and the “scim-bridge” module
(GTK_IM_MODULE=scim or GTK_IM_MODULE=scim-bridge).

Only XIM still doesn’t work in acroread in many locales, but that can
only be solved upstream by Adobe. See also

    http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=353251

for the XIM problem in acroread.

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