Re: [tlug] Slightly messed up Japanese input

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

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On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:30:10PM +0900, Dave M G wrote:
> Scott,
> 
> Thanks for replying.

> > If you open a terminal, can you input Japanese?  If so, which terminal?
> > What are your LC_CTYPE settings?
> >   
> If I open a terminal, gnome-terminal that is, I can indeed type Japanese.
> 
> I don't know what LC_CTYPE settings are, though, so I'm not sure how to 
> answer that one.

It's what's known as an environment variable.  In a terminal type

echo $LC_CTYPE

and let us know the output.  (It's a variable that indicates the locale
you're using.)




> 
> Anyhow, I tried this way of opening OpenOffice Writer:
> XMODIFIERS="@example.com=SCIM" GTK_IM_MODULE="scim" LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 ooffice 
> -writer
> 
> But this did not make any Japanese input happen. There were no errors in 
> the terminal.

You can also try it like that but change ja_JP.UTF-8 to ja_JP.utf8.  I
don't think it will make a difference, but it's worht a shot. 

> 
> top right hand side of the screen, on the Gnome panel near the clock and 
> date, there was an icon that consisted of two horizontal black bars with 
> some white space in between. Beside it was, usually, a hiragana "あ" and 
> a lower case "a". I don't know what the icon was called or what program 
> exactly it referred to. But I do know that clicking on it gave me a list 
> of input options, like anthy or direct input or things like that. It's 
> not there anymore so it's hard to be more descriptive of it.

Ok, I do know what you mean now.  That was an icon for uim-anthy, so
don't worry about it.   :)

> 
> > You can try doing locale -a | grep ja_JP to see if Ubuntu prefers
> > ja_JP.UTF-8 or ja_JP.utf8.  You can also try using EUC, which in Debian
> > would be ja_JP.EUC-JP.
> >   
> dave@example.com:~$ locale -a | grep ja_JP
> ja_JP.utf8

Ok, forget about EUC for now, it's not a locale on your system. 

At this point, you might try installing kinput2 and canna and see if you
can get OpenOffice working with them.  

At a command prompt

apt-get install canna kinput2-canna

Then you can start cannaserver (or it may start itself, my memory is
hazy with Debian and canna). 

Then start kinput2

kinput2 -canna &

Then try openoffice

XMODIFIERS="@example.com=kinput2" LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 ooffice-writer

If that doesn't work, then try it with ja_JP.utf8.

If that still doesn't work, then, get another distro.  :)  


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