Re: [tlug] ALERT: fcitx-mozc is lovely

[Chris Salzberg <chris@example.com>]

First time poster here, had to respond to this because so happy to 
finally have found a solution for Japanese input! Thanks for the great 
tip. I'd been struggling with anthy and friends but fcitx + mozc is 
brilliant.

In case anybody wants to take it to the next level, check out mozc-ut:

http://www.geocities.jp/ep3797/mozc_01.html
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mozc#mozc-ut

It adds a bunch of other dictionaries totalling around 350,000 new 
words, including train station names and a mapping from postal zip code 
to name, which is pretty neat.

On arch there's a package on the AUR to install it with fcitx:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fcitx-mozc-ut/

(But I found one link was outdated so the PKGBUILD had to be changed, 
see my comment in the link above. Also you might want to uncomment the 
_EJDIC="true" line to get EDICT bundled in too - no more jumping to ALC 
in a browser to do a quick lookup.)

Chris

On 01/26@09:56, Edmund Edgar wrote:
> I don't know if everyone else already knew about this but I just got
> the memo and feel the need to share my new religion.
>
> I'd been using ibus/anthy for Japanese input on Ubuntu Vivid, which
> was somehow failing to recognize my henkan key. So after fighting with
> it for the best part of an hour I finally tried turning it off and
> switching to another one, and it turns out fcitx-mozc is really,
> really nice. It Just Worked, and it's really intuitive and smooth to
> use, unlike Anthy which always felt like it was trying to stop me
> writing my email.
>
> Instructions for setting it up here:
> http://ubuntujp.jimdo.com/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E%E5%8C%96/#cc-m-header-10280891989
>
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