To install additional language support from the Languages group, use Pirut via Applications → Add/Remove Software, or run this command:

su -c 'yum groupinstall <language>-support'
      

In the command above, <language> is one of assamese, bengali, chinese, gujarati, hindi, japanese, kannada, korean, malayalam, marathi, oriya, punjabi, sinhala, tamil, thai, or telegu.

Users upgrading from earlier releases of Fedora are strongly recommended to install scim-bridge-gtk, which works well with 3rd party C++ applications linked against older versions of libstdc++.

The core SCIM packages are now installed by default, but the input method only starts by default on desktops running in an Asian locale (the current list is: as, bn, gu, hi, ja, kn, ko, ml, mr, ne, or, pa, si, ta, te, th, ur, vi, zh). You can use im-chooser via System → Preferences → Personal → Input Method to enable or disable SCIM on your desktop, or to select other installed input methods. In a non-Asian locale set Use custom input method → scim in im-chooser and restart your desktop session to activate SCIM on your desktop by default.

When SCIM is installed, it runs by default for users of all locales. If SCIM is installed but you do not wish to run it on your desktop, disable it using im-chooser.

The following table lists the default trigger hotkeys for different languages: