On 2014-10-14 14:02:52, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What're the recommended input methods for Japanese and Spanish?
>
I can't speak for anything officially recommended, but for
Japanese at least, I use ports/inputmethods/anthy with
ports/inputmethods/uim and it works well.
The only complaint I have is that for some applications, namely
xombrero and xfe, they either do not accept Japanese input unless
their locale is specifically changed to Japanese, such as is the
case with xombrero, which has the side-effect of changing all
fonts to Japanese equivalents which makes for rather "ugly" font
choices made for the Latin alphabet, or in the case of xfe where
it just does not accept Japanese input at all no matter what I
have tried.
An xterm invoked as uxterm and started with a Japanese font allows
me to have a terminal which supports the input and display of
Japanese however, so I'm not quite sure what keeps xombrero and
xfe from working out-of-the box like Firefox, editors/leafpad, and
devel/geany, for example. If anyone knows, please let me know.
I do have
export XMODIFIERS=@im=uim
export GTK_IM_MODULE="uim"
in my .xinitrc file.
As far as Spanish is concerned, I simply have a dead-key set up in
my .xinitrc
setxkbmap -rules base -model pc105 -option "compose:menu"
which sets the "menu" key in-between the right-ALT and right-CTRL
keys to a dead-key such that pressing <MENU><"><a> will produce an
'a' with umlauts. There are many other combinations as well.
You could probably use uim to to switch between a Spanish layout,
but it might be easier to do that with setxkbmap if you're
planning on typing in Spanish a lot, and are not just in need of
an occasional extended-Latin character. If you'll only
occasionally need an extended-Latin character, then using a
dead-key would probably be the easiest route.
I'd be interested in what other people use for the above tasks as
well.
Hope this was helpful!
--
Bryan
