Bug#306724: vim-gnome: Input chinese uncorrectly when encoding is set to prc

[Hongzheng Wang]

Subject: vim-gnome: Input chinese correctly when encoding is set to prc
Package: vim-gnome
Version: 1:6.3-071+1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n

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Hello,

I found that gvim would expand some chinese input into `??????'<chinese
word> when encoding of gvim is set to prc.

Let me take scim-chinese (a chinese pinyin input method module for scim)
as an example.  I will give a short introduction for chinese input
method to make my question clearly.  The very famous chinese input
method is `pinyin' input method: each chinese word has `pinyin', a
alphabet string.  When a user want to input a chinese word, he would
change into chinese input method environment first, then type the
`pinyin' string on keyboard.  After typing, he would select the chinese
word he needs since different chinese words may have the same `pinyin'
string.

When I type a chinese word `pinyin: fei', it will be displayed as
`??????<chinese word of fei>' in gvim.  A more detailed description: I
typed `f', then scim-chinese gave a list of candidates and nothing
happened.  Then I continued my input: I typed `e', then scim-chinese
gave another list of candidates.  When I typed `i', the last letter of
the `pinyin' string of chinese word `fei', I would get a candiates list
for all chinese words having `pinyin' string as `fei'.  The problem
occured when I type `e', that is, `fe' is not valid `pinyin' string of
normal chinese words and the candidates list would contain
unrecognizable one.  The gvim would expand the input as `??????'.  When
I finish the `pinyin' string input, the correct chinese word would
appear after `??????' as `??????<a chinese word>'.

It seems that gvim accepted a temporary input of chinese and expanded it
into `??????' since it is not a valid gbk chinese word when encoding is
set to prc. When encoding is set to utf-8, then this problem dispeared.

Since scim-chinese works properly in other applications, such as gedit,
the problem may be not belong to scim-chinese itself.  So I report this
problem here.

Thank you.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages vim-gnome depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2         2.3.17-1            Library of functions for 2D
graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0          1.8.0-4             The ATK accessibility
toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0         2.8.1-2             Bonobo CORBA interfaces
library
ii  libbonoboui2-0       2.8.1-2             The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                2.3.2.ds1-21        GNU C Library: Shared
libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4          2.8.1-5             GNOME configuration
database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.6.4-1             The GLib library of C
routines
ii  libgnome2-0          2.8.1-2             The GNOME 2 library -
runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0    2.8.0-1             A powerful object-oriented
display
ii  libgnomeui-0         2.8.1-3             The GNOME 2 libraries (User
Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0       2.8.4-2             The GNOME virtual
file-system libr
ii  libgpmg1             1.19.6-20           General Purpose Mouse -
shared lib
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.6.4-1             The GTK+ graphical user
interface 
ii  libice6              4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 Inter-Client Exchange
library
ii  libncurses5          5.4-4               Shared libraries for
terminal hand
ii  liborbit2            1:2.12.2-1          libraries for ORBit2 - a
CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.8.1-1             Layout and rendering of
internatio
ii  libpopt0             1.7-5               lib for parsing cmdline
parameters
ii  libsm6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System Session
Management
ii  libx11-6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System protocol
client li
ii  libxml2              2.6.16-7            GNOME XML library
ii  libxt6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  vim                  1:6.3-071+1         Vi IMproved - enhanced vi
editor
ii  xlibs                4.3.0.dfsg.1-12     X Keyboard Extension (XKB)
configu
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.2-4           compression library -
runtime

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Hongzheng Wang
Department of Electronic Engineering
Tsinghua University
Beijing 100084, China
Tel: (+86 10) 6279 6973