Recently, I have tried dozens of light-weight distros and finally settled with Antix. Thank you very much for your great job, anticapitalista! Being a *buntuer in the first place, I think I have got used to manage and use linux systems in the debian-like way, dpkg, synaptic...... I like Mepis so much too, finding both of the distros easy to use and manage, of course, in different manners. Mepis (with KDE) is more suitable for those new to the linux world without the need to tap into CLI, more or less, but has greater demands on hardware resources, while Antix is super light-weight with"less graphical", but still easy to use, control centre and user interfaces. Having struggled a bit with locales, input methods, etc, I found Antix is even"easier" to use than Mepis due to its well-balanced simplicity. Trying to squeeze more out of Antix......

Welcome to antiX minux and let us know if you managed to get locales set up as you want.

Have fun!

Howdy and Welcome minux. I use Ubuntu, Linux Mint 6, Linux Mint 6 Fluxbox RC1, AntiX 7.5 and AntiX 8. Good luck with the Locales.

anticapitalista wrote:Welcome to antiX minux and let us know if you managed to get locales set up as you want.

Have fun!

Thank you! Yes, I did get my locales set up. Here below are the initial steps for my most basic configuration of antiX:
1) set en_US (or zh_CN) and Asia->Shanghai when first install , or later in Control Center->System->Configure System and Control Center->Hardware->Set Date and Time;
2) In ROXterm,"dpkg-reconfigure locales" to make sure en_US.UTF-8 or zh_CN.UTF-8 selected;
3) edit /etc/apt/sources.list for faster repository sources (I use apt-spy to auto-locate and only use"stable" ones for my old taptop used at work);
4) update, upgrade, and get all Chinese fonts, scim, scim-pinyin, and scim-tables-zh (for Wubi input method I use);
5) leafpad ~/.xinitrc and add the following lines at the beginning (I prefer en_US as it is more convenient to work in an English environment for me. One may want to have zh_CN here, or zh_TW, zh_HK, or even jp_JP I believe):
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
export XIM_PROGRAM="scim"
export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"
export QT_IM_MODULE="scim"
scim -d
6) leafpad ~/.bashrc and add the following lines at the end (It looks like being some redundancy but inevitable as, without these, scim would only be activated by running programs from terminal; while ONLY using .bashrc with the above lines will cause initialization of scim everytime a terminal/program is initialized with two or even three daemons flickering on the tray, a bit annoying... ):
export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
export XIM_PROGRAM="scim"
export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"
export QT_IM_MODULE="scim"
7) set up scim for US keyboard (for most users I believe) and make sure this line"/SupportedUnicodeLocales = en_US.UTF-8" exists (or zh_CN.* if anyone wants)
__{{emoticon}}__ reboot and enjoy.
# I have tried writing similar lines in /etc/profiles, Xsession, and slim but it works only in .xinitrc and .bashrc
## hope this will help others from China and those from Asia

Oh! Thank you very much! Now I can write Chinese in many applications!