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To enable Chinese input capability under RedHat, as far as the mini-chinput is concerned, you have to install the RedHat with the Chinese language set as the default language. Otherwise, the ^-SPACE won't pop it up. Tested with the same set of RPM, and the only difference is the default language.

Once installed, you can change the system language setting back to English.

The GUI calls the redhat-config-language program, which uses /usr/share/redhat-config-language/redhat-config-language.py. It is only several lines long, using the /usr/share/redhat-config-language/languageBackend.py as the back end.

In the languageBackend.py, only /etc/sysconfig/i18n file is changed. Nothing more. It is changed according to /usr/share/redhat-config-language/locale-list.