[Scim-user] [ scim-Bugs-1529783 ] emacs does NOT cooperate with scim

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Bugs item #1529783, was opened at 2006-07-28 00:23
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Category: FrontEnd: XIM
Group: 1.4.x
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: HE Li (demonstrate)
Assigned to: James Su (suzhe)
Summary: emacs does NOT cooperate with scim

Initial Comment:
I have used scim as the Chinese input programme for
Emacs for a while. And they worked fine.
However, when I updated my FC4 to FC5, I find something
really strange. First I never change my configuration
of all programmes. Second, scim still works fine with
lots of other programmes, e.g. firefox, qterm(which is
based on qt) and etc., only except Emacs 21.4 which is
packaged with FC5. When C-<SPC> is pressed in Emacs,
the panel of scim won't appear as usual. Instead, Emacs
captures the key-hit and shows ``Set mark''. And even
if I disable the function associated with C-<SPC> in
Emacs, scim won't be able to be activated.
Then, a CVS version of Emacs 23.0.0.1 is compiled
natively. But scim won't be triggered either.
The environment variables, e.g. LANG and LC_CTYPE are
modified as zh_CN.gb2312 or zh_CN.gbk(or capitalized as
GB2312 and etc.) but without any success.
So now I am really confused with the problem. I don't
understand the reason that scim couldn't be activated.
Any suggestion will be welcome!

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Comment By: Jens-Ulrik Petersen (juhp)
Date: 2006-08-08 18:06

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Can you try making a new user account and
starting a gnome session as that user and seeing
if emacs works okay for you then?

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Comment By: HE Li (demonstrate)
Date: 2006-08-08 17:17

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It is only in emacs that scim can't be activated, which, I
think, is the strangest of all. Is there any other
possibility that is irrelevant to the way scim is launched?

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Comment By: Jens-Ulrik Petersen (juhp)
Date: 2006-08-08 10:14

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Hmm strange since it works fine for me for both
zh_CN.UTF-8 and ja_JP.UTF-8 for example.

I suspect there must be something different in your
environment it sounds like you may have a lot of
custom configuration.

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Comment By: HE Li (demonstrate)
Date: 2006-08-04 17:47

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It won't work, either.
The other environment variables are set in this script so as
to launch all kinds of program. E.g. when I log in, I will
enter a command as below:
chinese emacs qterm kontact firefox gaim
Then I can input Chinese in these programmes.

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Comment By: Jens-Ulrik Petersen (juhp)
Date: 2006-08-03 14:36

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Does scim XIM work ok if you run:

  XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM" LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 /usr/bin/emacs -q

for example?

BTW XIM, XIM_PROGRAM, GTK_IM_MODULE, and QT_IM_MODULE
have no effect on Emacs so there is no need to set them
in your script.  (Well GTK_IM_MODULE may possibly be useful
one day for gtk widgets in Emacs 22.)

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Comment By: HE Li (demonstrate)
Date: 2006-08-01 22:56

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here it is. LANG=en_US, because the default value of LANG is
set to en_US. However Emacs is launched with a script.
Output of printenv | sort with private variables ommitted:
DESKTOP_SESSION=xfce4
DISPLAY=:0.0
DM_CONTROL=/var/run/xdmctl
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1
GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
HISTSIZE=1000
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_04
KDEDIR=/usr
KDE_IS_PRELINKED=1
LANG=zh_CN.gb2312
LESSCHARSET=iso8859
LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s
LS_COLORS=
QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-3.3
QT_IM_MODULE=xim
QTINC=/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include
QTLIB=/usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib
SHELL=/bin/bash
SHLVL=3
SVN_EDITOR=/bin/vi
TERM=dumb
_=/usr/bin/printenv
XDM_MANAGED=/var/run/xdmctl/xdmctl-:0,maysd,mayfn,sched,rsvd,method=classic
XIM_PROGRAM=scim
XIM=scim
XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM

Scipt which launches Emacs:
#!/bin/bash
scim -d 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
export XIM=scim
export XIM_PROGRAM=scim
export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
export QT_IM_MODULE=xim
export LANG=zh_CN.gb2312
while test $# -gt 0
        do
                exec $1 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null &
                shift
        done

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Comment By: Jens-Ulrik Petersen (juhp)
Date: 2006-07-31 11:35

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Could you please attach the output of "printenv|sort"
from inside Emacs?  eg by using M-! (shell-command)

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