Chinese editing.

[Robert Klein]

Hi, Stephen,

On Mittwoch, 24. März 2004 10:48, Stephen Liu wrote:
> FreeBSD 5.2
> I have OOo 1.1.0 running on my PC working nicely.  

I'm assuming you got the zh-openoffice-TW-1.1.0 version mentioned 
below running.  It should not make any difference, except in the 
Taiwanese version the menus and perhaps even the help is 
supposed to be in traditional chinese.  Entering Chinese 
characters is possible with the English and German version of 
OpenOffice, too (probably with all versions).

> Now I want 
> to add Chinese editing function.  As per
> 'zh-openoffice-TW-1.1.0_2' on following link;
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=openoffice&stype=all
> I need to install all packages indicated there.

No. Those packages are required to get OpenOffice up and running.  
Some of those packages are only needed if you compile OpenOffice 
for yourself (for example bison, autoconf, gdk).

> Kind advise shall I uninstall all of them and reinstall them
> from their tarballs

Well, no.

You still can't enter Chinese characters, though.  To be able to 
do this you'll have to run a chinese input method, XCin for 
example.  I used XCin for traditional Chinese and fcitx for 
simplified Chinese in the past.  (And, no, I'm not fluent in 
Chinese.  I'm just doing some lists of vocabulary for the 
language course....)

I currently can't use Chinese input, however.  When updating from 
5.1 to 5.2 something went wrong and the input systen doesn't 
work anymore.  I believer, however, this is a problem on my 
system only.

Regards,
Robert