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Punchcutter Guru
Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 354
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 4:27 am Post subject: Firefox and Thunderbird not taking Japanese input [SOLVED] |
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I'm setting up a new machine, which needs to include Japanese input. I know how to set this stuff up - have done it many times. Lately I'm using ibus/Anthy.
On this new machine, Firefox and Thunderbird are not taking input from ibus. That is, although ibus seems to be set up and running correctly, it does not recognize focused text fields in these apps as being legit places to do input, and so it doesn't "activate" (not sure how to express this). I have at least one other app that I've tried that *does* activate ibus correctly, so I know the problem is not with ibus - it's with FF (4.0) and TB (3.1.9).
However I've compared my FF installation (at least) with another machine where everything is working, and I can't see where they differ.
This is particularly odd because in my experience, Firefox is the one app that will always take Japanese input right "out of the box", even when I have to struggle with the configuration of other apps to get them to do it.
I have compiled (my whole system) with USE="nls unicode cjk". Not sure if any other flags might be relevant, but these are the only ones I know of that might be.
Anyone have a clue about this? Thanks.
Last edited by Punchcutter on Fri May 06, 2011 8:19 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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kkspeed n00b
Joined: 17 Apr 2011 Posts: 11
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 10:56 am Post subject: Re: Firefox and Thunderbird not taking Japanese input |
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Have you put the following lines in your .xinitrc file?
export XMODIFIERS="@im=ibus"
export GTK_IM_MODULE="ibus"
export QT_IM_MODULE="ibus"
Hope this would help. |
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Punchcutter Guru
Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 354
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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I figured out the workaround to this problem. It is to set
Code: | LC_CTYPE="ja_JP.UTF-8" |
If you don't change any other locale-related environment variables, this seems to do the trick, without screwing up the rest of your world. It's still frustrating to me, though, that on other machines, the apps in question will take Japanese input without having to do this. I cannot figure out what the difference in configuration between these machines is. It all seems like a kind of black magic, which is not acceptable any more in the world we live in, AFAIAC. I just don't understand why the world of multilingual computing (at least in the open source world) hasn't caught up with "It Just Works(tm)" |
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VoidMage Watchman
Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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Must be your problem only or you've got odd locale settings - here ibus works without tweaking the locale. |
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bandreabis Advocate
Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Posts: 2490 Location: イタリアのロディで
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Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 7:52 am Post subject: |
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Same issue, not working solution. |
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dufeu l33t
Joined: 30 Aug 2002 Posts: 924 Location: US-FL-EST
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Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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FWIW - these are the messages printed when 'ibus' is installed: Code: | * Messages for package app-i18n/ibus-1.5.2:
* To use ibus, you should:
* 1. Get input engines from sunrise overlay.
* Run "emerge -s ibus-" in your favorite terminal
* for a list of packages we already have.
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* 2. Setup ibus:
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* $ ibus-setup
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* 3. Set the following in your user startup scripts
* such as .xinitrc, .xsession or .xprofile:
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* export XMODIFIERS="@im=ibus"
* export GTK_IM_MODULE="ibus"
* export QT_IM_MODULE="xim"
* ibus-daemon -d -x |
If you're using Anthy for Japanese input, you have your choice: Code: | * app-i18n/ibus-anthy
Latest version available: 1.5.0
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 565 kB
Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/ibus/
Description: Japanese input method Anthy IMEngine for IBus Framework
License: GPL-2
* app-i18n/ibus-skk
Latest version available: 1.4.1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 466 kB
Homepage: http://github.com/ueno/ibus-skk
Description: Japanese input method Anthy IMEngine for IBus Framework
License: GPL-2 |
This same topic is being discussed from a different perspective: QT Config Seeing not being saved. _________________ People whom think M$ is mediocre, don't know the half of it. |
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666threesixes666 Veteran
Joined: 31 May 2011 Posts: 1248 Location: 42.68n 85.41w
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Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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i see an avalanche of "linguas" use flags.... i see cn, not jp though... linguas_ja is a stab in the dark.....
linguas_ja
Japanese locale
Use flags: +startup-notification, -linguas_af, -linguas_ak, -linguas_ar, -linguas_as, -linguas_ast, -linguas_be, -linguas_bg, -linguas_bn_BD, -linguas_bn_IN, -linguas_br, -linguas_bs, -linguas_ca, -linguas_cs, -linguas_csb, -linguas_cy, -linguas_da, -linguas_de, -linguas_el, -linguas_en_GB, -linguas_en_ZA, -linguas_eo, -linguas_es_AR, -linguas_es_CL, -linguas_es_ES, -linguas_es_MX, -linguas_et, -linguas_eu, -linguas_fa, -linguas_fi, -linguas_fr, -linguas_fy_NL, -linguas_ga_IE, -linguas_gd, -linguas_gl, -linguas_gu_IN, -linguas_he, -linguas_hi_IN, -linguas_hr, -linguas_hu, -linguas_hy_AM, -linguas_id, -linguas_is, -linguas_it, -linguas_ja, -linguas_kk, -linguas_kn, -linguas_ko, -linguas_ku, -linguas_lg, -linguas_lt, -linguas_lv, -linguas_mai, -linguas_mk, -linguas_ml, -linguas_mr, -linguas_nb_NO, -linguas_nl, -linguas_nn_NO, -linguas_nso, -linguas_or, -linguas_pa_IN, -linguas_pl, -linguas_pt_BR, -linguas_pt_PT, -linguas_rm, -linguas_ro, -linguas_ru, -linguas_si, -linguas_sk, -linguas_sl, -linguas_son, -linguas_sq, -linguas_sr, -linguas_sv_SE, -linguas_ta, -linguas_ta_LK, -linguas_te, -linguas_th, -linguas_tr, -linguas_uk, -linguas_vi, -linguas_zh_CN, -linguas_zh_TW, -linguas_zu |
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