On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Bryan Linton <b...@shoshoni.info> wrote: > On 2014-10-14 14:02:52, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: >> What're the recommended input methods for Japanese and Spanish? >> > > I can't speak for anything officially recommended, but for > Japanese at least, I use ports/inputmethods/anthy with > ports/inputmethods/uim and it works well. > > The only complaint I have is that for some applications, namely > xombrero and xfe, they either do not accept Japanese input unless > their locale is specifically changed to Japanese, such as is the > case with xombrero, which has the side-effect of changing all > fonts to Japanese equivalents which makes for rather "ugly" font > choices made for the Latin alphabet, or in the case of xfe where > it just does not accept Japanese input at all no matter what I > have tried. > > An xterm invoked as uxterm and started with a Japanese font allows > me to have a terminal which supports the input and display of > Japanese however, so I'm not quite sure what keeps xombrero and > xfe from working out-of-the box like Firefox, editors/leafpad, and > devel/geany, for example. If anyone knows, please let me know. > > I do have > export XMODIFIERS=@im=uim > export GTK_IM_MODULE="uim" > in my .xinitrc file. > > > As far as Spanish is concerned, I simply have a dead-key set up in > my .xinitrc > setxkbmap -rules base -model pc105 -option "compose:menu" > which sets the "menu" key in-between the right-ALT and right-CTRL > keys to a dead-key such that pressing <MENU><"><a> will produce an > 'a' with umlauts. There are many other combinations as well. > > You could probably use uim to to switch between a Spanish layout, > but it might be easier to do that with setxkbmap if you're > planning on typing in Spanish a lot, and are not just in need of > an occasional extended-Latin character. If you'll only > occasionally need an extended-Latin character, then using a > dead-key would probably be the easiest route. > > I'd be interested in what other people use for the above tasks as > well. > > Hope this was helpful! > > -- > Bryan >
For spanish I also just map whatever key is more comfortable on each particular keyboard to dead_acute (for accents) - which is the most common used, and set a modifier key where I see fit and declare extra keysyms for those keycodes: $ cat .Xmodmap [...] keycode 10 = 1 exclam exclamdown keycode 20 = slash question questiondown keycode 25 = comma less guillemotleft keycode 26 = period greater guillemotright keycode 41 = u U udiaeresis Udiaeresis keycode 46 = n N ntilde Ntilde keycode 75 = dead_acute keycode 94 = Mode_switch [...] $
