Typing in pinyin in the GIMP text tool

[kake]

Hello! I want to make myself an icon along the lines of the pretty-coloured text ones that blnchflr did a tutorial for, but I've run across a small problem.

I'm using GIMP 2.6.7 on OS X 10.6.2, and I cannot get the text tool to let me type in pinyin, nor can I get it to admit that I have Chinese fonts installed. Has anyone here got any experience in making this work?

Edited to add: Sorted thanks to ewx and dragonwolf (see comments).

Comments

[ewx]

Apple’s dreadful X11 (which OS X Gimp uses) doesn’t listen to the standard character or keyboard viewers, but you can paste from those into a terminal and then from the terminal into X11. I know next to nothing about Chinese language issues so apologies if this is answering the wrong question.