Re: [tlug] CJK Input Methods

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 08:58:01PM UTC, David J Iannucci wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2024, at 20:12, Yasuaki Kudo wrote:
> > I don't type Japanese often so I can get by with the really poor
> > quality of Mozc in Ubuntu (latest version) .
> 
> Forgive my reaction, but... really?? You don't type Japanese often? :-)
> Maybe you mean: on this particular machine...
> 
> > I want the Javanese [sic :-] input in Linux to work normally like
> > Windows or IPhone, so we don't even need to talk about it!
> 
> Tell me about it. I'm still struggling with it after all these years (I
> use Gentoo, and occasionally start from a fresh install that's somewhat
> different from what I was doing before - I haven't used one of the more
> "consumer-oriented" distros for many years)
> 
> It's really just bizarre and sorta shameful that this is not just a
> Solved Problem, with one "brand-leader" OSS project that almost everyone
> uses, where if you follow some simple instructions and are not afraid of
> the shell and plaintext config files, you can set it up easily and it
> Just Works.
> 
> An anecdote from my recent experience: I had been using Google Translate
> for input for a long time (that's how infrequently _I_ was typing J :-),
> but now I want to type much more often, and so I tried to set things up.
> I used SCIM and Anthy. These are sufficient for my needs - IF they work.

SCIM is really old. For what it's worth, I have a page on inputting
Japanese though both the Ubuntu and Gentoo sections are fairly old.
https://srobb.net/jpninpt.html

That's just about getting it working at all, rather than solving the
specific problems with fcitx, or fcitx5.



> 
> I found that I could not activate the J input in Firefox under normal
> conditions. It would work if I set LANG="ja_JP.UTF-8" in the Firefox
> execution environment. This made some kind of sense to me, but I didn't
> want to do it because it causes the browser UI to change to J fonts (for
> English), which looks ugly (and probably other locale changes that I
> wouldn't want). But....


What I've found, (mostly on FreeBSD), is that I need GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
for GTK apps, such as firefox, to work in Japanese.


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