Comment 3 for bug 183213

Under Hardy Heron Beta the situation is still the same.

I tested with two different XIM engines, gcin and scim-chewing. Both of them were able to input Chinese characters in gedit. However, they are somewhat different. When typing in gcin, a floating window (though without borders) created near the caret displays the entered text, and allowing us to choose the characters. Hitting enter sends out the whole buffer to the application. When using scim-chewing with gedit, text was not shown in a separate window, but in the editing area, with recently entered characters underlined. Hitting enter sends out the buffer and removes the underline.

Ctrl + Space is the default hotkey for switching Chinese input on and off.

When using gcin: When typing in the "Leave message" text area, English characters are fine. Ctrl + Space switches on the Chinese input, though we are unable to tell. Keystrokes are sent to gcin (supposedly displayed in an unseen window) and nothing is added to the textarea. Upon hitting enter and sending out the buffer, the Chinese text appears in the text area. However, users do not get the chance to choose the characters.

When using scim-chewing: In the "Leave message" text area, I was unable to switch to Chinese mode. Hitting "a" produces "a", Ctrl + Space has no effect, and hitting "a" again enters "a" into the text area. I was only able to enter English characters.