OK, I finally worked out what it was. If you default locale is en_US, then it won't affect you at all. This works fine by default. If however, you are using anything else (such as en_GB.UTF-8 in my case) then only the scim still works fine in scim mode (GTK, QT etc), but appears to not work in direct XIM mode. My apologies Ming, you were right, XIM is working fine. My global file had:
"/SupportedUnicodeLocales = en_US.UTF-8, en_GB.UTF-8" The problem is the blank space after the "," causes the second locale not to be recognised. Thus "/SupportedUnicodeLocales = en_US.UTF-8,en_GB.UTF-8" is needed. I guess it would be really helpful if there was some way of having the relevant locale added automatically as for anyone outside the US, running the automatic installation procedure won't finish off the job. SCIM will run, but only accept input into apps where input method is changed from XIM to SCIM. Further more perhaps SCIM could be a bit more forgiving in processing the locale string. Other dists (SUSE) seem to whack a whole load of locales in the global file automatically. Thats why it seemed to be Ubuntu related. I'll post this in the forum as I know others have has the same issue. Cheers, Ryu On 04/03/2008, Rolf Leggewie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about a virtualbox.org image so we all have a common base to test > on? > > I am bit overwhelmed with other stuff, but if nobody else beats me to > it, I'll eventually try and provide such an image. I understand Ming is > pressed for time as well, I hope this will be a time-saver for him. My > feeling is that he is in the best position with the most technical > background to help us on this. > > > -- > SCIM wont work with Java > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/98890 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- SCIM wont work with Java https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/98890 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs