Re: [tlug] Questions about Japanese input

[Doug Lerner <doug@example.com>]

On 8/9/03 6:55 PM, "Scott Robbins" <scottro@example.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 06:08:16PM +0900, Doug Lerner wrote:
>> 
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>> (1) How to always have kinput2 running, without typing in the above
>> commands?
>> 
>> (2) It seems you always have to switch out of kinput2 with SHIFT-SPACE to
>> enter a line return and go to the next line, and then switch back again to
>> keep on typing. Is that true?
>> 
>> (3) I can't get the same SHIFT-SPACE to work in Evolution or Mozilla. Is
>> there some general technique?
> 
> Shawn answered in part--don't know if you've seen my page on this whole
> thing at
> 
> http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/jpninpt.html

Thanks for your reply. I am looking over that page now. I'm still not sure
what goes where and for what purpose, but I would like to understand all
this.

I guess what I am confused about is - how do I just set things once so that
all the apps that I start, no matter how or from where I start them, will
recognize kanji input. If the app doesn't support kanji input fine - the
characters will mojibake in that case. But rather than running a script
before each app, or setting some to work with kinput2 and others to ignore
it, isn't there just one setting somewhere so that, like with my Mac or with
Windows, the SHIFT-SPACE is always active?

> 
> I haven't had that trouble with the return that you mention, and as
> Shawn said, a script is usually the easiest way to get these things
> working.
> 
> One bit of advice for future posts, it helps to know what distribution
> of Linux that you're using, as many distributions have their own little
> variations. 

Good point. This is Redhat 9.0.


doug