SCIM/SKIM Doesn't Show Complete Chinese Fonts

[robbyjo]

Hi all,

As for now I can't input Chinese characters. Some of the characters are missing and replaced with dots. I already installed Arial Unicode MS and followed everything in the CJK documentation guide, but it doesn't work. I went up to install every fonts available from portage, yet no success.

Here's a screenshot. Look at number 3, 4, and 5. They're just dots. I typed "wo" there, yet it seems to be wrong...

Would anyone tell me what's wrong and how to fix it? Thanks. Also, how can I make the SCIM/SKIM a bit smarter? If I enter certain phrases, it should guess a handful of good ones (like the one in Windows).

Edit: I can view Chinese fonts in browsers. It's just that the characters doesn't show up in the same font.
Here's a screenshot. Anyone can tell me why?

[r0bertz]

install media-fonts/wqy-bitmapfont

add "/usr/share/fonts/wqy-bitmapfont" to fontpath in xorg.conf

cd /usr/share/fonts/wqy-bitmapfont , and run mkfontdir and mkfontscale, so that apps using X core font api can use them, like xmms and emacs. Then run "fc-cache -vf", so that apps using fontconfig can use it.

Note this font is bitmap font, which means if you specify a font size which the font doesn't have, you won't see it, instead you can see the nearest font size.

Or if you can obtain a legal copy of simsun.ttc, I recommend you use it. This font is ttf font, it also contains embedded bitmap at certain font size.

Also you may want to modify your fonts.conf, please check this:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E4%BD%93%E9%85%8D%E7%BD%AE%E8%8C%83%E4%BE%8B

[robbyjo]

Thanks a lot. That works. Another question:
The font showing out in Gentoo is way too thin. I can barely read it. How can I fix it?

Please have a look at this screenshot. Notice the title. It doesn't align well. How can I fix it?

Thanks.

[countryroad]

[yangtse]

scim能输入的字体超过了现在中文的字体。哈哈