On 09/06/11 2:31 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> looks like its mostly for far eastern languages. > Yeah, from the last stuff I've found, looks like it's for her to read > Chinese. I've seen some suggestions, and if they don't work (xim?), I'll > talk to her about what we can do. as an Input Method, I would think it would strictly be for ENTERING(typing) Chinese etc. and, it is only needed if another package you need specifically calls for it. xim provides a similar functionality but not in a compatible manner. scim-bridge requires scim and scim-libs. I can't tell you what other packages require scim or scim-libs as I don't have any of those installed. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast