japanese input

iamlarryboy · Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 10:24 pm Post subject: japanese input

One of my roomates is japanese and would like to be able to write her family in Japanese. I have been trying to get Japanese input working with no success. I have gathered from the forums that i need to install i18n, canna, and kinput2 which I have done, however I do not know what to do now. I am using kde 3.1rc_5. It would also be a boon if there is a really easy way to switch between japanese mode and english mode.

thanks

Kawada · Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 10:47 pm Post subject:

Okay, so you've already emerged i18n, canna, and kinput2. Next, you want to make sure that canna gets loaded on startup, so do this as root

plate · Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2003 4:04 am Post subject:

Great explanation! You'relarryboy, if you need anything else, there's a Gentoo-specific mini-tutorial at fellow Gentooist Scottro's website, and the author of Kiten (in KDE 3.1, check it out), Jason Katz-Brown, has a page on Japanese in KDE.

iamlarryboy · Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 8:20 am Post subject: Thanks

Alright I have it working ... well sort of. It works with all kde apps except koffice. When I enable kinput2 with shift+spacebar kword will no longer take any input at all. Any Idea what might be causing this? Also I have been starting kde with the suggested .xinitrc method. This may be a stupid question but how can I do the equivilent with gdm? Thanks again.

Kawada · Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 6:03 pm Post subject:

Glad you're getting that to work. No real idea on KOffice, never used it. Run it from a console and see if you're getting any error messages on it. Try loading up a Japanese text file in it and see if it can even view it properly.

As far as doing all this through gdm, you can either make another session file under /etc/X11/Sessions/ that matches your .xinitrc, or you can simply edit the kde one that is already there.

While you're at it, maybe you should try making a session for a total Japanese enviroment (menus and everything) since this might help further diagnose the KOffice problem. This is the same as what you've done before, except it becomes

iamlarryboy · Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 9:05 pm Post subject: sweet

Thank you very much. I have given my friend her own account with a default all japanese session and it works great. The default fonts needed some adjusting though. Kword seems to work but it behaves differently than other apps. For example, In kedit I would type shift+space d e and it would pump out a charachter then s u and it would pump out another one. In kword i type shift+space d e s u enter before it will pump out anything. Wierd.

Oh well I guess she will just have to use kedit. Again thanks a bunch!

Kawada · Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 10:41 pm Post subject: Re: sweet

zhenlin · Veteran Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 1361

Is this KDE-only? I'm guessing not, because the examples in the referenced webpages seem to include non-QT applications.

Is it UTF-8/UTF-16? It looks like it, but is there any special configuration needed?

Kesereti · Guru Joined: 07 Nov 2002 Posts: 520

Miaowara · n00b Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 41

Is there any way at all to use SJIS as an input method? As far as I can tell all Japanese Keitai are only able to read this encoding. If so how would one go about doing it? :?:

zhenlin · Veteran Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 1361

iconv -f UTF-8 -t SJIS (or whatever the code is)

Most people should be able to read UTF-8. It is only a matter of telling that to the computer.

Miaowara · n00b Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 41

Cool, thanks! The problem is it seems people using Japanese cell phones can't choose!

rounin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Apr 2003 Posts: 84

Look at the document in my sig for some comprehensive information on using input methods in Korean and Japanese. A noteable thing about Japanese input methods is that they can use either the Canna or the Wnn server. (Though Canna doesn't work for me, unfortunately.)