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| yaneurabeya wrote: | | hiroki wrote: | | maybe you should try "xi"... also works for "xtsu"? (ぃ｜い)(っ｜つ) |
Awesome, thanks for the tip  . Now what about the dot (in Windows can be referenced with the forward slash key)? |
what dot?
do you mean like in:
コンピューター・サイエンス
well, i don't know it for anthy 'cause i use SKK [i lot it, give it a try  ]
and there i type "/." + <space> to get it. |
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Nope, that doesn't work  . I'll just look up some SCIM/Anthy documentation I suppose =\... |
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z/ = ・
Emergeing anthy-5900-r1 now 
EDIT:It works! Proper grammar inserted into howto.
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With fluxbox and xorg when I put | Quote: | export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8
export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim |
in /etc/xprofile or in ~/.xprofile and startx there are no changes and "locale" does not show a change. When I put it in .xinitrc fluxbox takes a tremendously long time to load. I'm not using KDE or anything, just fluxbox. It does load eventually just after a long time.
What do you think?
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| Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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| maiku wrote: | With fluxbox and xorg when I put | Quote: | export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8
export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
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in /etc/xprofile or in ~/.xprofile and startx there are no changes and "locale" does not show a change. When I put it in .xinitrc fluxbox takes a tremendously long time to load. I'm not using KDE or anything, just fluxbox. It does load eventually just after a long time.
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Probably that means that /etc/xprofile and ~/.xprofile are not being refered to - I think this is a differnce of using a *dm versus startx.
The slowdown with fluxbox - simply put, it is obeying the LC_TYPE. If you use mostly GTK or QT apps, you don't need it. I am not usre if it is the japanese support that slows it down, or the UTF8 support - try using just LC_TYPE="ja_JP" in the .xinitrc. If it speeds up... er... lost train of thought.
You could also make sure fluxbox is using a Unicode font, like those in the link given near the begining. The font changes with the LC_TYPE also, does it not?
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Actually yes, it does speed up it up when I change it to ja_JP. However this is probably not best otherwise it would have been included in the HOWTO. If you don't mind the question what functionality did I lose by changing it besides my Eterm font changing .
I don't think the flux is using a unicode font. But that I can set no problem.
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My best guess, without examining source code, is that fluxbox and Eterm are trying to get a set that matched the whole Unicode set. GTK+ dows this rater transparently, piecing together the differents sets as best it can. Fluxbox is probably searching for a full font.
Try Arial Unicode, with the ja_JP.UTF8 ... other then that, take it up with the fluxbox people.
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I'm having trouble with japanese input in both openoffice and firefox.
Openoffice (not ximian version) doesn't seem to notice the japanese input, just giving me english characters all the time. I set the LC_CTYPE variable but it doesn't sem to make any difference.
Firefox is even worse. It does one of two things seemingly at random with both canna and anthy: The first is it only lets me type english constonants, no vowels, and when I type more than one constonant the second replaces the first, so I can only have one letter at a time. None of the special keys work, only escape. The other is it lets me type in hiragana but none of the special keys work, so I can't convert it to anything else, and backspace doesn't work either.
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| Biggles wrote: | I'm having trouble with japanese input in both openoffice and firefox.
Openoffice (not ximian version) doesn't seem to notice the japanese input, just giving me english characters all the time. I set the LC_CTYPE variable but it doesn't sem to make any difference.
Firefox is even worse. It does one of two things seemingly at random with both canna and anthy: The first is it only lets me type english constonants, no vowels, and when I type more than one constonant the second replaces the first, so I can only have one letter at a time. None of the special keys work, only escape. The other is it lets me type in hiragana but none of the special keys work, so I can't convert it to anything else, and backspace doesn't work either. |
Openoffice: make sure you have use export LC_CTYPE=* before oowriter and the like. Also, oo.org requires manual configuration of fonts - I believe the program that does this is oopadmin or spadmin. Yet another advantage to using ximian.
Firefox: Er... you are describing standard japanese input. There are several modes to choose from, one represented by the あ in the scim-selector-bar-thing.
Are you in KDE or some other environment?
"Special Keys"? I have no idea what keyboard you are using, so this could mean many things.
Have you used japanese input in other evironments before? (Seriously, I'd like to know what your expectations are based off of)
Have you tried it out in somthing simple, like gedit or kwrite?
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Biggles
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Sorry about the incoherent post.
I've used it in gnome-terminal (python wasn't happy about me throwing kanji at it), kedit, anjuta, thunderbird and x-chat. It worked fine in all of them. I think that covers GTK and Qt. I'm using KDE as my enviroment.
I previously used im-ja and canna for japanese input in GTK apps (it still goes now if I set the environment variables right), but I never got that working with Qt apps. (I've also used the windows stuff, if that really matters - it's quite nice.)
When I said "special keys" I was referring to the keys used to do special functions, eg press space to switch between hiragana and various kanji, enter to confirm, etc. In firefox it definitely shows the hiragana 'a' character.
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I have tried repeatedly to follow the instructions above (except I don't need input for any Qt apps (or are Firefox and Thunderbird Qt?), so I skip that part), I but keep getting the same problem: SCIM crashes almost everything I try to run: gedit, Firefox, Thunderbird. When trying to run from a terminal, this error is generated: | Code: | | *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08295f78 *** |
I use XFCE (4.2), and have ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in my make.conf. I also use GDM and only need Japanese input for myself - share the computer with my wife who only needs to read it. I've tried exporting XMODIFIERS and GTK_IM_MODULE from .xprofile, .xinitrc, and ~/Desktop/Autostart/xfce4.desktop. I have tried with and without exporting LC_CTYPE. And probably some other things that I can't think of at the moment. I'd really like to use SCIM, as I really need to be able to input from Firefox and Thunderbird, and I rather dislike GNOME and really dislike KDE (nothing against anyone who loves either of them) - so I don't want to install either of them, but ....
Anyone have any ideas what may be going on, and how I might fix it? |
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| MrPixel wrote: | I have tried repeatedly to follow the instructions above (except I don't need input for any Qt apps (or are Firefox and Thunderbird Qt?), so I skip that part), I but keep getting the same problem: SCIM crashes almost everything I try to run: gedit, Firefox, Thunderbird. When trying to run from a terminal, this error is generated: | Code: | | *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08295f78 *** |
I use XFCE (4.2), and have ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in my make.conf. I also use GDM and only need Japanese input for myself - share the computer with my wife who only needs to read it. I've tried exporting XMODIFIERS and GTK_IM_MODULE from .xprofile, .xinitrc, and ~/Desktop/Autostart/xfce4.desktop. I have tried with and without exporting LC_CTYPE. And probably some other things that I can't think of at the moment. I'd really like to use SCIM, as I really need to be able to input from Firefox and Thunderbird, and I rather dislike GNOME and really dislike KDE (nothing against anyone who loves either of them) - so I don't want to install either of them, but ....
Anyone have any ideas what may be going on, and how I might fix it? |
FIRST: ~x86 for a reason. 
Second: I you are comfortable with keyboard shortcuts, you may wan to try streight UIM-anthy. Remove the GTK_IM_MODULE reference, and issue the following command form the terminal: touch ~/.uim && echo "(define default-im-name 'anthy)" >> ~/.uim. Restart X. UIM-anthy is now the default. Shift+space toggles the mode. This is the setup I am currently using, but many people like a place to click. 
The other alternative is im-ja, in the old HOWTO: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=111387 - no support there, though.
Third: liuspider associates with SCIM, and http://www.scim-im.org/about says the version you have is in need of bug reports.
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| Sudrien wrote: |
FIRST: ~x86 for a reason.
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That makes perfect sense - but I kinda can't live without some of the things it provides (esp. XFCE 4.2)
| Quote: | Second: I you are comfortable with keyboard shortcuts, you may wan to try streight UIM-anthy. Remove the GTK_IM_MODULE reference, and issue the following command form the terminal: touch ~/.uim && echo "(define default-im-name 'anthy)" >> ~/.uim. Restart X. UIM-anthy is now the default. Shift+space toggles the mode. This is the setup I am currently using, but many people like a place to click.
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Perfectly fine with me ... I actually don't like the click interface with im-ja, and found it tedious to switch IMs with the mouse.
However, do I still need SCIM? Or ??? there's not package called uim-anthy. Can you point me to a howto or some other resource?
I just filed a bugreport with them. Thanks for the pointer. |
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| MrPixel wrote: | | Sudrien wrote: |
Second: I you are comfortable with keyboard shortcuts, you may wan to try streight UIM-anthy. Remove the GTK_IM_MODULE reference, and issue the following command form the terminal: touch ~/.uim && echo "(define default-im-name 'anthy)" >> ~/.uim. Restart X. UIM-anthy is now the default. Shift+space toggles the mode. This is the setup I am currently using, but many people like a place to click.
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Perfectly fine with me ... I actually don't like the click interface with im-ja, and found it tedious to switch IMs with the mouse.
However, do I still need SCIM? Or ??? there's not package called uim-anthy. Can you point me to a howto or some other resource? |
UIM-anthy is built if anthy is present when UIM is emerged. (I thought I already had this shortcut in the howto - will again soon). You can confirm it was built with cat /var/db/pkg/app-i18n/uim-*/CONTENTS | grep anthy
It does not require SCIM, so you can remove anything associated with SCIM in the name.
If UIM is installed, it becomes the default input method for GTK, so there is no GTK_IM_MODULE entry. The touch ~/.uim && echo "(define default-im-name 'anthy)" >> ~/.uim tells it to use anthy by default.
After classes I will try and throw together a quick way of how to set this up from scratch - though thtere should be enough info here to figure this out yourself.
(now if they'd only add that 'anthy' USE flag like I had asked...)
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Ok ... great!
uim-anthy is working with gedit ... does it not work with Firefox or Thunderbird? I suppose Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V will always work, but is there a way to get it there, too? |
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| MrPixel wrote: | Ok ... great!
uim-anthy is working with gedit ... does it not work with Firefox or Thunderbird? I suppose Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V will always work, but is there a way to get it there, too? |
Compile the gtk/gtk2 flags into firefox and thunderbird in order to get gtk input support. Better yet though, just add USE="gtk gtk [...old flags here...]" to your /etc/make.conf file and just run emerge --newuse world. That will solve your input issue. |
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Hum hello all !
Very very nice HOWTO. I successfully, without pain, managed to use the scim-uim in my XFCE4 install. No worry, all Kate, Kedit, etc etc work very well.
Japanese with Firefox is just the same, all runs smoothly.
But two questions :
The export of XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM and QT_IM_MODULE can be put in /etc/xprofile (for all users), in order to export these variables at X startup. But here, it seems it just ignored the xprofile contents, I still have to export by hand... Any other file I should use ? (xorg, xfce4)...
I exported LC_CTYPE=ja_JA.UTF-8 ans started oowriter...but no way to write Japanese under Normal openoffice 1.1.3 (Asian Languages activated...). It doesn't seem to be a font problem by the way...
(by the way : test : おはよう ございます。)
Thanks again for the topic
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| Modano wrote: | The export of XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM and QT_IM_MODULE can be put in /etc/xprofile (for all users), in order to export these variables at X startup. But here, it seems it just ignored the xprofile contents, I still have to export by hand... Any other file I should use ? (xorg, xfce4)...
I exported LC_CTYPE=ja_JA.UTF-8 ans started oowriter...but no way to write Japanese under Normal openoffice 1.1.3 (Asian Languages activated...). It doesn't seem to be a font problem by the way...
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/etc/env.d/02locale is a new section, so I'm glad that works for you. Because it works, try the following:
echo 'QT_IM_MODULE=SCIM' >> /etc/env.d/02locale
echo 'XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM' >> /etc/env.d/02locale
Now, from a PM I sent a little while ago:
| Quote: | Ok, let's try oo.org - I am pretty sure it's a font issue. open up a terminal and run oopadmin - or type "oo" and hit tab. I think it's spelled like that. You should find a button mentioning fonts - all of yours should be in /usr/share/fonts/, up to you to find the right one. Add all it can find, to be safe.
Then restart oowriter or somthing and test. |
And it is ja_JP.UTF-8, not ja_JA.UTF-8. (thought you should try it after you have installed the fonts witout any extra exports)
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Thanks Sud I'll clear out that later.
I'm not understanding why Gjiten does not seem to see my attempt to use scim (ctrl+space)...Nothing happens...I can copy/paste from Kiten, which runs well, but no way I can use the IM in gjiten.
I exported GTK_IM_MODULE...but nothing ?
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Mea Culpa, didn't exported properly the QT/GTK_IM_MODULE environment variables. Thanks a lot to this topic again
Love testing in gjiten/kiten etc like a child :p
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Cool thread. I have now japanese.
But... dead keys and compose key doesn't work anymore.
Perhaps due to the fact that I have a german keyboard, but skim has only the following menu entries :
English/Keyboard -> English/European
English (American) -> M17N-en-ispell
Japanese -> lots of entries
Other -> unicode & raw code
Keyboard
Any clue why I don't have a German entry?
Here is my .xprofile :
| Code: | export XPSERVERLIST="`/bin/sh /usr/sbin/xprint get_xpserverlist`"
export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
export QT_IM_SWITCHER=imsw-multi
export QT_IM_MODULE=scim |
Here my .xinitrc :
| Code: | export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" |
Extract from xorg.conf:
| Code: | Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
Driver "kbd"
Option "Vendor" "Dell"
Option "Name" "Dell Keyboard"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 5"
EndSection |
And in KDE I have
-keyboard layout set to German with basic layout
-xkb options:
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| Greisby wrote: | Cool thread. I have now japanese.
But... dead keys and compose key doesn't work anymore.
Perhaps due to the fact that I have a german keyboard, but skim has only the following menu entries :
English/Keyboard -> English/European
English (American) -> M17N-en-ispell
Japanese -> lots of entries
Other -> unicode & raw code
Keyboard
Any clue why I don't have a German entry?
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Plain old "Keyboard" should work just fine for your dead keys. It could be labeled "Raw input", but more prople understand "Keyboard". 
A suggestion: remove the xinitrc lines:
export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
make a file called /etc/env.d/02locale
and put the following lines in it:
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
then etc-update and restart X.
This might help with the keyboard without changing your language - if not, change the /etc/env.d/02locale's LC_CTYPE back to American English.
(the oft confused) -Sud.
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| Sudrien wrote: | make a file called /etc/env.d/02locale
and put the following lines in it:
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
then etc-update and restart X. |
Where did you get the 02 in 02locale, if I may ask.
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| maiku wrote: | | Sudrien wrote: | make a file called /etc/env.d/02locale
and put the following lines in it:
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
then etc-update and restart X. |
Where did you get the 02 in 02locale, if I may ask. |
If you try that and run emerge you'll get errors =\... |
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