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Hello,

I want to typewrite Chinese word in the graphical interface of RevPi Core 3. Could you pls tell me how to do that? Thank you!

Hi, generally speaking, to type Chinese in RevPi Core, what you need is the SCIM (https://sourceforge.net/projects/scim/).
I have tested it with RevPi Core 3, and here I would like to give you some hint about the steps:
1. Config the locales with following command and choose the following items if you use simplified Chinese

• en_US ISO-8859-1

• zh_CN GB2312

• zh_CN.GBK GBK

• zh_CN.UTF-8 UTF-8

if you use traditional Chinese, consider following items:

• zh_TW BIG5

• zh_TW.UTF-8 UTF-8

• zh_HK BIG5-HKSCS

• zh_HK.UTF-8 UTF-8

and following items might be better for Singapore's Chinese characters:

• zh_SG GB2312

• zh_SG.GBK GBK

2. Install the Chinese Fonts with following command
other possible fonts sets might be fonts-arphic-bkai00mp, fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp, fonts-arphic-ukai, fonts-arphic-uming
3. Install the SCIM
4. Before startx, export LANG and XMODIFIERS with following commands
variable LANG might be zh_TW BIG5, etc for other Language sets
5. After startx, start the scim as a deamon
6. Then with CTRL + Space, you can switch the input methods

Hello Zhan,

I have tried all the steps and installed scim successfully. However I still can't use Ctrl+Space to switch the input methods. I also use another key board, but it still doesn't work. Do you have some idea?

Hi, Have you done the step 4 before the X window starting ? I had come across the same problem. But after exporting the LANG and XMODIFIERS before X windows starting , I was able to use CTRL + Space to switch IMs

Hi Zhan,

Thank you for you help!
I do Step 4 in command line before startx, then it works. Now I can enter Chinese in the graphical interface.
And I have a new question:
Should I do Step 4 manually every time when I restart Revolution Pi?

Hi,
basically adding the commands to the correct startup scripts can approach your target.
till now I found that in /etc/default/locate the LANG and XMODIFIERS can be set
and in the ~/.config/autostart you might be able to find the location for scim -d.

Hi Zhan,

Your method works. And a little thing to be corrected:
"LANG and XMODIFIERS can be set in /etc/default/locale"
not "/etc/default/locate"

Thank you so much for you help

thanks a lot for your correction