Chinese is my wife's native language, and athough we always communicate in English, I've made some effort to learn her language. In fact, I wrote the Hanzi Quiz program ... but that's another story ...

I'd like to be able to use Chinese characters more easily on my sid desktop here, but so far I've only been able to enter Chinese from within emacs.

I used to use the emacs program mew for my mail, but switched to mozilla mail for a number of reasons (especially Enigmail, the amazing GPG plugin). When I did that, I sacrificed my ability to send Chinese e-mail.

There is a debian package called iiimf-htt-server (where iiimf stands for Internet/Intranet Input Method Framework), along with plugins for various input methods (e.g. iiimf-htt-le-newpy is one for Chinese).

I can't figure out how to use the damn thing at all. There is hardly any documentation in English about using Chinese on Linux. There is considerable documentation in Chinese, which I could try to decipher, but it's all geared towards setting up a completely Chinese environment.

Anyone have a clue?