On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 4:11 AM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2015/09/22 0:43 "Anthony J. Bentley" <anth...@anjbe.name>: >> >> Hi Peter, >> >> Peter Kane writes: >> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Stuart Henderson <st...@openbsd.org> >> > wrote: >> > > On 2015/09/20 13:45, Peter Kane wrote: >> > >> Hello >> > >> >> > >> I wanted to set up some Japanese input >> >> jless, jvim, and kterm are all basically patchsets on top of very old >> forks of existing projects. None of them have been updated in the past >> 15 years. In the meantime the projects they were forked from have gained >> multilingual support of their own and are still actively developed. >> >> The native Japanese OpenBSD users I know use uim, anthy, and xterm. > > Some recent threads: > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&w=2&r=1&s=japanese&q=b > > My personal experiences (old blogpost, might be useful for reference): > > http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2014/12/typing-in-japanese-in-openbsd.html > >> Also, it looks like kterm defaults to EUC-JP. That's not so great, as >> most OpenBSD software that cares about encodings should be using UTF-8, >> and in the future will keep moving in that direction. >> >> Due to these factors (plus the amd64 problems), I'm inclined to remove >> these dead ports. Marc? > > I find myself thinking I should have something to say about this, but not > knowing what. > > They were a blind alley for me at one point, but I suspect there might still > be some obscure cases, etc., and those who are most interested have a > difficult time keeping up with English posts.
Thanks for following up. I originally looked at some of the posts linked above and also got ibus-anthy working with leafpad. However, it needed leafpad to run as root (trying as an unprivileged user didn't seem to work). As I only want to use it occasionally I opted for the jvim solution as it was OK on i386. Peter
