Re: [tlug] [Not Off-Topic] Happy New Year!

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

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On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 05:16:47PM +0900, Lyle H Saxon wrote:
> On 1/1/06, bruno raoult <bruno@example.com> wrote:


> > PS. Just to pretend not to be off-topic: On My Suse (10), I just switch
> > the input method (scim) with a key on every app. Except Mozilla (Firefox
> > and Thunderbird) ones... Any clue on how to input japanese on these? I
> > never use it (today was my first email with kana - I just copy-pasted
> > from a terminal to get them), but it could be useful...
> > And *yes. I know*, I should read the archives first, but my brain is not
> If you install Japanese as a second language on SuSE 10, then
> everything seems to work.  In the installs I've done that way with
> SuSE 10, there has been Japanese input ability everywhere I've tried,
> including Firefox and Mozilla.

I am finding more and more, as I spent this week playing with several
distros, that on many of them (though I didn't try SuSE) have problems
with scim-anthy, uim-anthy, etc.  Almost all of them, even if they have
the packages, don't input Japanese in some applications.  The only more
or less Just Works distro that worked was Vector, probably because it's
based on Slackware and I just installed from source--which, on various
Fedora and Debian offshoots didn't work properly. 

Oddly enough, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and ArchLinux, (as well as Slackware
itself) none of which claim to be newbie friendly, are the ones where
things worked almost without a hitch.  (Although in NetBSD, one uses uim
in combination with anthy.  Also, in NetBSD, I only tried it with
terminals, not any other applications.)


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