Re: [tlug] Japanese input on Debian Testing

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

> A recent (well, a few months ago) update broke Japanese support in a few 
> subtle ways. Some applications would accept Japanese input, some would 
> not.... In the process i discovered that if i set "LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8" 
> then Japanese input magically started working in (almost) all apps 
> again! (Note that my other LC_ variables are set to "en_US.UTF-8".)

I think this is related to Mattia's post from yesterday. The "im-switch"
utility ties your input-method settings to your locale.

So you *might* just need to run it while in your en_US.UTF8 locale.

> At the time i set up Japanese input, UIM/Anthy seemed to be the most 
> modern and "correct" way to do it, with SCIM slowly fading away. Now 
> IBus seems to be the most accepted way to do it; would it be worth 
> trying to rip out my Japanese input system and rebuild it around IBus?

I didn't voluntarily move to ibus, just got it from whichever ubuntu
distro it started with. But I've no complaints, it seems to work with
everything, and it is great if you want more than just English/Japanese.

Darren


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