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How to Type Vietnamese on CentOS

Thursday, February 7, 2013

There are many solutions that help typing Vietnamese on Linux (RedHat/Fedora/CentOS). One of those is SCIM. It is very simple to install Scim package.

Follow these steps to install scim:

# yum install scim scim-libs scim-tables scim-bridge scim-tables-vietnamese

(you can type yum install scim* to look for other languages)

SCIM defaultly supports Viqr, you need to download and install the following packages for Telex and VNI

Download the newest file from: Scim-Vietnamese

# rpm -ivh scim*.rpm

Select System → Preferences → More Preferences → Input Method