#185 SCIM bug with AZERTY keyboard

[Jerome Froger]

Hello,

I use Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty with a French AZERTY keyboard to write Chinese.

I works quite well but the following methods have some trouble :

zh-pinyin : confusion between a and q
智能拼音: (which is the most ueful method) : we cannot select the characters by using the number keys. We need to use the arrows each time, which is quite slow.

SCIM was installed at the origin with Jaunty. I did not change anything.
The bug was the same with Gutsy.

Does someone have an idea about this problem ?
Jerome

[mose]

I had same problem, I finaly changed table used for pinyin, with
apt-get install scim-uim uim-pinyin
which gives access to the UIM-pinyin table and that one takes in account azerty properly.

(but I hope that bug in smartpinyin will be fixed anyway, one day)

hth,
mose

[koxinga]

A simple hack for the first problem is to edit /usr/share/m17n/zh-pinyin.mim and replace 'a' with 'q' in the map rules.

For example :
("qi" (("ai" "āi" "ái" "ǎi" "ài" )))

[Jerome Froger]

Thanks very much, it works perfectly now !

[Rolf]

Jerome, thank you for reporting back. I'm not sure what you did exactly. Did you workaround the problem or is the problem no longer present in the latest version of scim? IOW, do we still need to release a fix?

[koxinga]

If I understand correctly, he was just talking about my workaround to make zh-pinyin work with azerty keyboard.

The problem with 智能拼音 and numbers to select words is still present and quite annoying.

[Jerome Froger]

Hi !
I used the workaround as follow :

A simple hack for the first problem is to edit /usr/share/m17n/zh-pinyin.mim and replace 'a' with 'q' in the map rules.
For example : ("qi" (("ai" "āi" "ái" "ǎi" "ài" )))

Bye, Jerome