Re: [tlug] Questions about Japanese input

[Doug Lerner <doug@example.com>]

On 8/9/03 7:43 PM, "Scott Robbins" <scottro@example.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 07:02:05PM +0900, Doug Lerner wrote:
>> On 8/9/03 6:32 PM, "Shawn" <javajunkie@example.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> please see http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/jpninpt.html
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> I believe I have
>>>> canna and kinput2 running.
>>> 
>>> great ! now just get it in a script, see above or search the archives for
>>> how
>>> 
>>> such as
>>> 
>>> #!/bin/bash
>>> XMODIFIERS="@example.com=kinput2" LANGUAGE=en_US LANG=ja_JP.eucJP LC_ALL=ja_JP.eucJP
>>> ${1+"$@} &
>> 
>> What is this script supposed to be used for?
> 
> Aha, that's why you have to read the page.  :)
> 
> Seriously, it's explained in fuller detail on the page, but what it
> does, in a nutshell is give you a Japanese environment for that
> particular terminal (that is, if you open a kterm and run that script,
> programs called from that kterm will run in a Japanese environ, even if
> your default language is English.)
>> 

Still waaaay confused. On that page, it says:

-----
To be able to use other applications besides vi and pico, such as Sylpheed,
an excellent GUI email client, do the following. In an xterm or kterm type

kinput2 -canna &

(If you've already got kinput2 running as mentioned above, you can skip that
line)

export LC_ALL=ja_JP
export LANG=ja_JP.eucJP
export XMODIFIERS='@example.com=kinput2'
-------

Well, kinput2 is running and in kterm I can enter Japanese. But even after
entering the three "export" lines above, I still can't use Japanese input in
Mozilla, for example. SHIFT-SPACE doesn't do anything in that app. I even
started it from the input line.

Are you saying that *in addition* to those three export lines I *also* need
to call the app using the script above?

If so, don't I need to put those export lines into the script as well?

And what about apps that are called from the Gnome or KDE UI, by clicking on
an icon.

doug@example.com confused