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[nyu]

Hi ALL,

I just uploaded three PET packages for Chinese localization and input methods for
Puppy 4.00. They are:

zh_e-4.00.pet ------- to setup Chinese localization
scim-1.4.7-i486-5.pet ------ main Scim program
scim-tables-0.5.7-i486.pet ----- Various Chinese input methods

Download from here:
http://dotpups.de/puppy4/dotpups/Localization/Chinese/
mirror:
http://puppyfiles.ca/dotpupsde/puppy4/dotpups/Localization/Chinese/

You need to install some Chinese Unicode font as well. I am not going to explain it here.
Please search the Forum for information.

Once you have installed these packages in your Puppy system, please do the followings:
1. Use your editor to open "/root/.xinitrc" file, and remove the comment, e.g. #, at the
beginning of the following lines:
#export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
#export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
#scim -d

2. Save the file.

3. Go to "Menu ---> Desktop ---> Chooselocale country localization", then select "local".
You'll see a new window. There are three additional radio buttons for you to
choose. They are en_US.UTF-8, zh_CN.UTF-8 and zh_TW.UTF-8. Please choose one
of them.

4. After you click "OK", X will restart.

5. Now, open "Leafpad" or Abiword in the Menu and choose your installed Chinese font.

6. Hit "Ctl+Space", and you'll see SCIM popup window. Choose your favorite input
method and start typing.

That\s it. Have fun!

P.S. If you have any question, please post.

[cecc]

Hi nyu,

that's great, thank you very much.

I'll suggest our forum members test it.

regards,

cecc

[nyu]

Hi cecc,

You are welcome!

[labrador]

Check out the Chinese localization package I made.
http://puppy.cnbits.com/sites/default/files/chinese_pack-0.6.pet

The install process is same as ordinary .pet package. After restarting the X server, you will get what the following image shows.

There's another package, called chinese_pack_extra, providing more Chinese input methods and scalable fonts. It can be found on http://puppy.cnbits.com(it's in Chinese). You can also find technical detail about these packages on that site.

[cecc]

hi nyu,

The Chinese localization and SCIM input packages work well on my Puppy, except I didn't find the scim-pinyin in the SCIM tray.

Since I'm the smart pinyin user I searched for scim-pinyin from web, and this may be useful:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/zh-cn/hardy/i386/scim-pinyin/download

thank you, nyu.

regards,

cecc

[nyu]

[nyu]

[woodys]

Hi nyu,

First of all, thank you for making these Chinese pet packages. I would
be even more grateful if you could just go ahead and make the
scim-pinyin package because I will need it. Scim-pinyin is the only
Chinese input method that I'm familiar with, and I have tried the ubuntu
package, but it does not work well. I have not been able to upgrade my
puppy since 2.17 because of the lack of scim-pinyin.

Thanks again for your help.

[Aitch]

Hi woodys, nyu

see Irihapeti's post May 23rd

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=200017&sid=4f8e0284c5757e5627e3c232b36545b5

[nyu]

[nyu]

[woodys]

Hi nyu,

I appreciate very much your help. But after further trying out puppy
4.0, I think it's not worthwhile for me to upgrade for the following
reasons:

1. It's slower than puppy 2.17.
2. I cannot upgrade seamonkey because of segmentation fault.
3. The encryption password is shown when I key in.

So please do not take the trouble to make the scim-pinyin package
especially for me. Your kindness is appreciated all the same.

May you be well and happy!

[nyu]

Hi woodys,

No problem. I made it to a pet package for Dingo already. MU will let me
know the final downloading location. Maybe some other people will use
the pet package

I installed Dingo in my old computer with 400MHz CPU and 256MB RAM.
The speed is very comfortable compared to other distributions. Your other
issues relate to software bug? I am sure this forum can give you hands
and resolve them quickly. Let's make a better puppy.

Cheers!
nyu

[nyu]

Hi ALL,

The "41 Language Internationalization" project member already made
the package. You can download it form the following site.

http://www.puppylinux.ca/members/Irihapeti/

enjoy!
nyu

[nath2omt]