Japanese Input with Karmic?
Does anybody here use Japanese input as a secondary language? My computer was installed using the default English language, but I need to converse with Japanese people on a regular basis. So, I went into the System-Administration-Language Support just like I did on all the versions of Ubuntu. But SCIM does not seem to be popped up any more. When I press Ctrl-Space... nothing. Right now while in Firefox, scim says that anthy is active... does this look like Japanese. Not to me either. In order to get any Japanese support, I have to go into GEdit. Pressing Ctrl-space does not work, but I can right click and select Input Methods-SCIM Input Method, and presto, romanji is converted into にほんご (Japanese). I can then paste that into my Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, etc. So its not a language support issue, its an input issue. I need to write to our Tokyo office and need this to work. Before filing a bug... Can someone else confirm or tell me how they got theirs to work? Thanks Kevin Fries Senior Linux Engineer Computer and Communications Technology, Inc A division of Japan Communications Inc (303) 708-9228 x326 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Japanese Input with Karmic?
2009/11/24 Kevin Fries kfr...@cctus.com: Does anybody here use Japanese input as a secondary language? My computer was installed using the default English language, but I need to converse with Japanese people on a regular basis. So, I went into the System-Administration-Language Support just like I did on all the versions of Ubuntu. But SCIM does not seem to be popped up any more. When I press Ctrl-Space... nothing. Right now while in Firefox, scim says that anthy is active... does this look like Japanese. Not to me either. I don't generally have the need for secondary language input, so hopefully someone more familiar will chime in. But I do know that ibus has replace SCIM as Ubuntu's default input method in Karmic. [1] If you did a fresh install of Karmic SCIM shouldn't be installed at all, though it is still availiable in the repos. To activate IBus and set it up, go to SystemPreferencesIBus Preferences It can be called with Ctrl-Space just like SCIM. Of course, this isn't very discoverable. I didn't have any idea what an ibus was the first time it showed up in my menus. Luckily there has already been a bug filed and a fix is about to be pulled in from Debian which will give it a more descriptive name. [2] Hope that helps... - Andrew SB [1] https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-karmic-input-methods [2] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/429986 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Japanese Input with Karmic?
Kevin Fries wrote: Before filing a bug... Can someone else confirm or tell me how they got theirs to work? In Karmic we have switched to IBus, since SCIM upstream is dead. IBus is installed by default, you just need to do the following: 1. in System-Administration-Language Support set your Keyboard input method to 'ibus'. 2. restart your X session, i.e. log out and in again. 3. in System-Administration-IBus Preferences go to the Input Method tab and select Japanese-Anthy. Click Add to add it to your preferred list of input methods. 4. IBus is now usable. Simply hit Crtl-Space to toggle Japanese input method in the application you want. Cheers Arne signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
