Re: [tlug] CentOS and Japanese-Revisited-2nd Attempt

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

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On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 01:09:43AM +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
> Scott Robbins wrote:
> 
> >I think it's fine in this case, just snip my reply. <ducks and runs>
> 
> cheers.
> 
> >I've snipped the information below, which I probably shouldn't, but I'm
> >going to go into a rant.
> >
> >Short answer, use kinput2 and canna.
> > 
> just tried it..no luck either...
> 
> [root@example.com ~]# pkill scim
> [root@example.com ~]# ps auxxx | grep scim
> root      3681  0.0  0.1  4896  664 pts/2    S+   00:42   0:00 grep scim
> [root@example.com ~]# ps auxxx | grep cannaserver
> canna     2147  0.0  0.9 19888 4804 ?        Ss   Dec30   0:01 
> /usr/sbin/cannaserver -syslog -u canna
> root      3683  0.0  0.1  3896  660 pts/2    R+   00:42   0:00 grep cannaserver
> [root@example.com ~]# whereis kinput2
> kinput2: /usr/X11R6/bin/kinput2 /usr/X11R6/bin/kinput2.canna-wnn4 
> /usr/bin/X11/kinput2 /usr/bin/X11/kinput2.canna-wnn4

The next step would be to type in any terminal

export XMODIFIERS="@example.com=kinput2"
export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8  
kinput2 -canna &

Hopefully, you get back a pid number saying it's running.

Then, from that same terminal, try launching a uxterm and seeing if you
can input Japanese with shift+space to invoke kinput2.

If that works, again from the same terminal, or from the uxterm [1] try
launching thunderbird and seeing if you can input Japanese.  If this
works, then it means that the kinput2 -canna combo are working for you. 

I'm assuming you tried yum search scim-anthy.  As I've said the last
person with a CentOS problem got it working by installing with yum. 

The problem you mention, only having something like raw code is a
problem I ran into with one of my experiments--it needs to give the
option for Japanese=> Anthy.  

I don't have the knowledge to try to figure out why this is, but
apparently, as I think I wrote last night, some of these distributions
with their own package managers just don't do well on things installed
from source without more tweaking than one would expect.  


Or, of course, your other option is to switch to Gentoo, as you were
thinking--perhaps this is an omen.  :)


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