2008/8/28 Lisi Reisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <snip> > > > > Lisi, your en-GB locale is quite sufficient ; you don't need a Japanese > > locale. What you do need to do is thye the following commands into a > > terminal : > > > > im-switch -z en_GB.UTF-8 -s scim > > > > im-switch -z en_GB.UTF-8 -s scim-bridge > > > > Try this and see if you don't get a SCIM icon on your terminal (in the > > Gnome GUI, it looks like a keyboard by default and is placed in the upper > > right corner near the clock). Let us know if this works. If so, we can > > proceed to configuring SCIM.... > > > > As I said earlier, 頑張って ! > > > > Henri > > The Skim applet was there already, but nothing happened. So I did as you > suggested, rebooted, and got a different icon. I checked that the > configuration was still correct - it wasn't, the keyboard had changed. So > I > reset the keyboard. I then tried to use it in Kate. AND IT WORKED!! It > even went from the Hiragana to the Kanji of my grandaughter's name. > > I restrained myself from turning cartwheels round the room and tried it in > OOo. It didn't work.The Skim panel came up but it had no effect. > > I am currently downloading Abiword to see whether it works in that. > (Done). > It doesn't. > > (I tried to start Abiword from the run command - and got Kanji!) > > Meanwhile Kate still works. In fact, it brings up Kanji without going > through > Hiragana. So the problem is less urgent. She could, if push came to > shove, > write her Japanese letters in Kate. But I would prefer to get her going on > OpenOffice. Perhaps I still have something wrong in the configuration?? > > I now get Kanji for all my system keyboard shortcuts and had to turn it off > to > launch Kail, which I am now setting up in order to see whether I can type > in > Japanese in that. > > Thanks very much :-)) \o/ > Lisi >
Lisi, check my posting regarding enabling enhanced support for Asian languages in reply to the posting you sent immediately after this one, but which I read first.... Henri
