On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 17:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Aloha, > > Today I met a Japanese user of our new Linux lab. She was very > impressed with the Japanese language support on our workstations, but > she was a bit dissapointed to find she couldn't 'input' Kanji into > Mozilla.
You need the following packages and all of its dependencies: Canna-libs Canna kinput2-canna-wnn6 Then enable the Canna daemon: chkconfig canna on service canna start In order for kinput2 XIM to work, kinput2 must be started in the background of that user's session and the applications must be started in a certain way. I wrote myself a little script called /usr/local/bin/ja to do this for me. #!/bin/bash kinput2 -canna & LANG=ja_JP XMODIFIERS="@im=kinput2" $@ This step shouldn't be needed if you have Canna and kinput2 configured properly and your system locale is set to ja_JP or ja_JP-UTF-8 in Red Hat 8.0. Red Hat is supposed to automatically handle kinput2 and the necessary environment variables when it is used in this fashion. My "ja" script is mainly needed for running Mozilla in Japanese mode while my session is in English mode. This current XIM system is fairly ugly to setup and use... but luckily some engineers at Red Hat are working on a brand new replacement that will be just as nice as Asian input in Windows or MacOS X. Last I heard this should be largely usable sometime early 2003.