CentOS - Feb 2017 - Installing support for Chinese text in Centos 7

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.

Suggestions? Thank you.

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


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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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