Comment 2 for bug 434730

Hi. Yes, I have this problem too. As suggested in various things on the web, it is possible to work around this by launching emacs from the command-line with:

LC_CTYPE="zh_CN.UTF-8" emacs

Some more detail on this:

http://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/detail?id=458

I guess this affects a fairly small segment of the user population (people with English language desktops who need to type Chinese), but it's still a bit annoying that Emacs refuses to integrate with the desktop...