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Wednesday, April 6th 2005, 7:22pm

international support in KDE

Greetings:

Since KDE and KOffice boast international support, I'm wondering how I
can input Chinese characters into KWord?

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Thursday, April 7th 2005, 4:54pm

You could check if the usual way for inputting Asian characters (I believe it is called XIM) works with KWord as well.

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Friday, April 8th 2005, 6:14pm

thanks

that's also what i thought, but i just wanted to check to make sure that there wasn't already native language input suppport available for KDE itself.

it's mighty strange how a desktop environment that supports the display of multinational characters so well (I've tried out chinese in both gb2312 and unicode utf-8 and in both cases it worked excellently!) would be without input modules for those same characters.

but i'm sure future kde versions would address this issue.
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Saturday, April 9th 2005, 4:43pm

I think the input is already handled on Qt level, which in turn takes the input through XIM.

That is on X11 of course, Qt might do this differently on other platforms.

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Sunday, April 10th 2005, 12:28am

thanks again, anda_skoa, so qt could also be used to contruct non-X apps?

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Sunday, April 10th 2005, 12:31am

on a related tidbit, when i was doing my software design patterns in my second year of software engineering we are forced to use gtkmm [c++ version of gtk] to create a Euchure game [card game], and I think it looks ugly. QT stuff looks much better, particularly in my slackware 10.1, they're XP quality [sorry the M$ influence has not quite drained off ;-]

interestingly, although i did the whole ui for euchre in gtk, the desktop environment i used wasn't gnome, it is, as you guessed it -- kde!!! LOL

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Sunday, April 10th 2005, 12:32am

Yes it can.
In both cases, i.e. other GUI systems like Windows or OS X and non-GUI a.k.a. console based

The latter can be achieved by passing "false" as the third parameter to the QApplication constructor.

See respective questions on the QtForum section Qt Programming for details.

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