[CentOS] Installing support for Chinese text in Centos 7

[H]

I installed fcitx-pinyn, and its dependencies, and I now have ZH as a choice but have not been able to type pinyin and get a list of Chinese characters to choose among like I could on CentOS 6. Does anyone have it working?


On 4/2/2017 11:27 AM, H wrote:
> Thank you, I just discovered your post. I just installed fcitx-pinyin to try out.
>
> On 02/25/2017 09:04 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 08:51:41PM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
>>> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 08:42:43PM -0500, H wrote:
>>>> I have just done a minimal installation of Centos7 followed by X Windows and the Mate desktop on a workstation. Although the default language is English, I would like to be able to write Chinese text in various applications.
>>>>
>>>> I seem to remember this was very easy to do in Centos 6 and Gnome: possibly only requiring only a simple 'yum groupinstall "Chinese Support"' after which I could use iBus to switch between languages. This does not seem to work in Centos 7.
>>>>
>>>
>>> These days, I use fcitx-anthy on CentOS (which took some work to set up,
>>> but ibus-anthy, at least, (for Japanese) worked pretty well. I have
>>> instructions, again, for Japanese, but quite possibly applicable at
>>> http://srobb.net/jpninpt.html#CentOS6
>> I'm going to add that a quick look through pkgs.org shows that CentOS-7x
>> does have packages for fcitx-pinyin and a few other Chinese engines, and it
>> might be worth considering making the switch. It seems (general impression
>> on my part) to be replacing ibus in a lot of places, in the same way ibus
>> gradually replaced scim.
>>
>>
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