ROSA Forum

Hi,

I've tried out ROSA and like it quite a lot. However, I cannot install Asian Language support (Chinese) for my parents. In the Locale setting, only Euro Lang support can be selected.

Any idea how to install Asian Language support?

Thanks in advance.

Though Chinese is not supported out of the box, all necessary packages should be in repositories and you are able to install them manually.

The simplest way is to launch rpmdrake ("Install and Remove Software") and look for packages containing the word "chinese" in their description.

If you use KDE, necessary packages include kde-l10n-zh_CN (for simplified Chinese) or kde-l10n-zh_TW (for traditional Chinese) and locales-zh. There are a lot of other packages containing 'zh_CN', 'zh_TW' and similar abbreviations in their names - these packages provide localisation for particular applications. For example, if you want to be able to choose Chinese in Firefox, you should install firefox-zh_CN or firefox-zh_TW.

Install Chines locale first
then reboot and run
and select Chines locale

For KDE answer in previous post.

For other programs install zh locale too (like libreoffice-l10n-zh_CN and etc).

Also you need install fonts
and may be pinyin stuff

scim-googlepinyin or ibus-sunpinyin from Contrib repo (we do not know Chines and will not help you with this )

Hi, d_uragan and akdengi,

Thanks for the reply, will try the method above.

Just install the locale and everything in Chinese now. Thanks!