How to input traditional chinese characters? (was: How to input chinese characters with `scim'?)

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:

>> With `chinese-py' input method I can input simplified Chinese characters;
>> instead with `chinese-py-b5' there are only white squares.  What am I
>> missing?


Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> If you go to one of the empty boxes and type "C-u C-x =", what does
> Emacs tell you about the character it cannot display?



This is Emacs response:



  character: 中 (152420, #o451544, #x25364, U+4E2D)
    charset: chinese-big5-1
	     (Frequently used part (A141-C67F) of Big5 (Chinese traditional).)
 code point: #x26 #x64
     syntax: w 	which means: word
   category: C:Chinese (Han) characters of 2-byte character sets c:Chinese
	     |:While filling, we can break a line at this character.
   to input: type "zhong1" or "zhong4" with chinese-py-b5
buffer code: #x98 #xA6 #xE4
  file code: #xE4 #xB8 #xAD (encoded by coding system mule-utf-8)
    display: no font available

There are text properties here:
  fontified            t


.  What do you suggest?  Certainly something important must be missing.
Thanks indeed!
Rodolfo