Re: How to input Japanese?
2006/7/8, Craig Hagerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Sorry if this is off topic - I have been searching for an answer unsuccessfully for a couple days. I have been trying to get my computer set up to use Japanese. I have read through several web pages and installed a lot of suggested software with apt-get. (Can't remember all of it anymore.) Now I can view web pages in Japanese or documents containing Japanese in Abiword, etc. Everything seems to be working OK. My problem is that I can't figure out how I am supposed to write Japanese. I was able to get up a Japanese keyboard and input 'kana, but that is not what I want. With that kind of layout every key is a different kana. (e.g. the D key is mapped to the kana 'KI) The way I (and most people) write Japanese is to use an English layout. (e.g. in order to enter the kana 'KI', you type 'K' + 'I'.) On my mac I can switch between English and Japanese entry by hitting Command+Space. On Windows I believe that I can select with the mouse from a language bar in the bottom panel. After a lot of searching on the net I can't figure out how to do this in linux (gnome). All the relevant web pages I find talk about installing Japanese versions of xterm or text editors etc. I don't need that - all I want it to be able to enter Japanese in a web browser or a .rtf document. Any ideas on how to input Japanese? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not know if this it is the problem. But today I have had accentuated problems writing in Catalan under kde. Writing on console they appear characters such as \363. On kword I have discovered that the problem is simply of font used. -- Pere Nubiola Radigales Telf: +34 656316974 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to input Japanese?
On 7/8/06, LI Daobing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: install scim + scim-tables-jaAnd then...?I found out I already had scim installed, and not scim-tables-ja. Both are now installed. But I still don't understand how I am supposed to input Japanese text. Is there some magic key combination to switch between English and kana (such as alt-space or something)? Craig
Re: How to input Japanese?
On 7/8/06, Craig Hagerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And then...? I found out I already had scim installed, and not scim-tables-ja. Both are now installed. But I still don't understand how I am supposed to input Japanese text. Is there some magic key combination to switch between English and kana (such as alt-space or something)? cut from /usr/share/doc/scim/README.Debian.gz -- Autostart SCIM -- It's quite inconvenient to set environment variables and manually start SCIM each time you login, so you want to start SCIM automatically when your X session starts. This is not hard, you just need to put the commands of setting variables and start SCIM into a configuration file X reads when it starts. For example, the following lines in ~/.gnomerc should work if you want to start SCIM automatically with GNOME: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LANG XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM export XMODIFIERS GTK_IM_MODULE=xim export GTK_IM_MODULE scim -d Change the en_US.UTF-8 to your preferred locale, and change GTK_IM_MODULE to scim if you want to use GTK IM mode instead of XIM mode. The hard part is to figure out which configuration file to put these in. One choice is to put it in ~/.xsession, and add your X session command at the end of the file (such as exec gnome-session or exec startkde). But this way you always need to modify this file to change X session, and the feature of choosing session in GDM/KDM will not work anymore. There are other packages to help these configuration easier, see the next section. -- LI Daobing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: How to input Japanese?
Thanks for the help. Unfortunately from that readme it still isn't clear how to actual choose a different input method. But you pointed me in the right direction - I found a wiki about scim (http://www.scim-im.org/wiki/documentation) which in turn lead me to finding out about scim-setup. I ran this utility from the command line. It gives a gui setup tool for scim. It seems that the answer to my basic question is that Command-Space will switch between inputs (although you can set individual hot keys). Thanks for your assistance, Li. Craig On 7/8/06, LI Daobing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/8/06, Craig Hagerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And then...? I found out I already had scim installed, and not scim-tables-ja. Both are now installed. But I still don't understand how I am supposed to input Japanese text. Is there some magic key combination to switch between English and kana (such as alt-space or something)? cut from /usr/share/doc/scim/README.Debian.gz -- Autostart SCIM -- It's quite inconvenient to set environment variables and manually start SCIM each time you login, so you want to start SCIM automatically when your X session starts. This is not hard, you just need to put the commands of setting variables and start SCIM into a configuration file X reads when it starts. For example, the following lines in ~/.gnomerc should work if you want to start SCIM automatically with GNOME: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LANG XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM export XMODIFIERS GTK_IM_MODULE=xim export GTK_IM_MODULE scim -d Change the en_US.UTF-8 to your preferred locale, and change GTK_IM_MODULE to scim if you want to use GTK IM mode instead of XIM mode. The hard part is to figure out which configuration file to put these in. One choice is to put it in ~/.xsession, and add your X session command at the end of the file (such as exec gnome-session or exec startkde). But this way you always need to modify this file to change X session, and the feature of choosing session in GDM/KDM will not work anymore. There are other packages to help these configuration easier, see the next section. -- LI Daobing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
