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. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6