Inputting Japanese in Linux

[SGenier]

Hello,

This might be useful for the few of you that are using Linux.
It might not be very detailed, but it gives many alternatives.
http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/suse-cjk.html
It works perfectly for Suse Linux, and it is also pertinant to other ditributions.

I hope it will be of some use.

[racum]

...and for the Ubuntu crowd out there:

-> System -> Administration -> Language Support (requires password) -> Select Japanese language -> Click Ok

-> Wait for the packages download (this may take a while, so find something else to do, like listen one episode or two of jpod101).

-> Log out and Log in again (you don't need to restart).

-> In GTK-based applications just right-click in any text widget and them: Inpout Methods -> SCIM Input Method.

-> A small box should appear with the option to write hiragana/katakana/romanji.

-> Try it: 大丈夫でしょう!!

Note: Many important programs are not GTK-based (like Firefox and OpenOffice), for this cases there is a way to configure SCIM to work with all applicaions, It's a bit harder tham this cake-recipe and I didn't have time to try it, if any one knows what I'm talking about please complete this instructions.

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Racum

[jkid]

Thanks for that. I am running Kubuntu on my laptop. I am hoping the process is somewhat similar.

[racum]

I did a small research and find out how to make SCIM work with non-GTK application:

-> Follow my steps above.

-> Put these lines in your ~/.xinitrc file:

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export XMODIFIERS='@im=SCIM'
export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"
export QT_IM_MODULE="scim"
export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.utf8
scim -d

-> Restart your X session.

-> Have fun.

Note: This may work with all Linux and BSD systems that use SCIM.

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Racum

[sarahg]

The above didn't do much for me, but I've found more instructions for Ubuntu at
http://www.mrbass.org/linux/ubuntu/scim/

If you see me posting in the Japanese practice forum in about 15 minutes then you'll know it worked

[sarahg]

That was scary! It totally broke firefox so firefox wouldn't start. I found http://neoaddict.wordpress.com/2006/12/ ... in-ubuntu/ which did seem to fix things. At first I got firefox running but scim wouldn't work still. Then I realised I needed to "sudo apt-get install scim-bridge". After that it all works! Yay!