Recent changes to bugs

various suggestions and questions

Anonymous — Sat, 29 May 2004 00:15:35 -0000

Hello,

I notice that there is no miniChinput mailing list so I
decided
to post here...

I would like to contribute some problems and suggestions to
the development of miniChinput as well as a few questions.
I am using miniChinput as packaged with
Fedora Linux Core 1 (Red Hat).

1. When I type pin1yin1 the characters that appear in the
miniChinput window are very small. Is there a way to
enlarge
the font used to display thecharacters so that they not
appear so small inside the character selection window.

2. Is there a way to limit the number of choices offerend
for a given input by specifying one of the four tones with
each initial-final syllable combination? This would be very
useful since sometimes there are a lot of choices.

3. Sometimes when I am using an application and open
another I have theproblem that pressing CTRL+SPACE
does not bring up a miniChinput window and I end up
having to log out and then back in again. Any ideas on
how to fix it?

4. Finally, it would be nice if redhat could allow users to
switch languages during a session without having to log
out and back in.

Thanks,

Neil (please reply to nzanella@ualberta.ca)

character not found

Anonymous — Fri, 28 May 2004 23:57:25 -0000

Hello,

When I input the character for goose (pinyin: e2) I
cannot locate
the corresponding simplified character from the list.
The character 鹅 is composed of 我 plus the
right hand side of 鸭.

How come I cannot find it on the list when I enter the
pinyin?

Thanks.

failed to recognize XLFD with space in it

Zhang Weiwu — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 05:01:50 -0000

miniChinput -0.1.9 cannot understand XLFD with space in
it in the Chinput.ad file.

Say, the Chinput.ad file

chinput.font = 8x16
chinput.gbfont = -isas-fangsong
ti-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-160-gb2312.1980-0
chinput.gbkfont = -isas-fangsong
ti-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-160-gb2312.1980-0

(please notice there is a space between "fangsong" and
"ti")
Will cause chinput prompt for "font -isas-fangsong not
found".

This is a bad problem: the above font I mentioned is
the default Chinese font in XFree86 4 as I installed
it. Many companies who cannot afford (or don't wish to
pay) for zysong fonts tends to use this default font,
and there should be a version of Chinput that can cope
with this font.

zrm cause minichinput to crash under FreeBSD

hao chen — Sun, 10 Aug 2003 15:21:03 -0000

when using ZRM, most of HZ coded by asciis start with a
"v" crashes minichinput. I only found one that does
not: vsgo, which codes for CHINA. This does not happen
under redhat 9

details: ZRM was enabled by first using cin2tab to
obtain a zrm.tab and zrm.tab.phr. cce_hzinput.c was
edited to comment out the Qmode=1 lines. Then .chinput
was edited to include the ZRM module.

This may have something to do with the freebsd patch
since the cvs version won't compile under freebsd:
cd ImmModules; make
cd cce; make
cd turbo; make
cd src; make
for d in IMdkit server client; do ( cd $d; make ); done
make: don't know how to make ../../../config.h. Stop
*** Error code 2

Stop in /usr/home/hao/temp/miniChinput/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/home/hao/temp/miniChinput.

versions:
4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD
windowmaker 0.80.2 (same thing under redhat)
XFree86 Version 4.3.0
Release Date: 27 February 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.8 i386 [ELF]
Build Date: 23 March 2003
Before reporting problems, check
http://www.XFree86.Org/
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present

this is what used under Redhat:
XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Red Hat Linux release: 4.3.0-2)
Release Date: 27 February 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.20-3bigmem i686 [ELF]
Build Date: 27 February 2003
Build Host: porky.devel.redhat.com