<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/11 Roger Lancefield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rlancefield@gmail.com">rlancefield@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div dir="ltr">2008/9/11 London School of Puppetry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lspinfo@gmail.com" target="_blank">lspinfo@gmail.com</a>></span><div class="Ih2E3d"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div dir="ltr">I have a Japanese friend staying. I have been trying to sort out my laptop for her to se in her own language- we can get Japanese Kano, but the letters are in the wrong places- can anyone help?<br><br></div> </blockquote></div><br></div>Hi Caroline,<br><br>As you probably realise, you should be able to view Japanese characters (both Kana and Kanji) within Firefox by default. Ditto Unicode-aware applications such as the vim and gedit text editors.<br> <br>However, to be able to properly work with and edit those characters you'll need (I presume) to install full Japanese language support (System > Administration > Language Support) and then enable/configure the SCIM Input Method utility (System > Preferences > SCIM Input Method Setup). <br> <br>I say "I presume" because I haven't done any Japanese text processing on Ubuntu or GNOME, but I'm pretty sure these are the steps you'll need to take. Perhaps others here could confirm?<br><br>Good luck!<br> <br>Roger<br></div></blockquote><div><br><br>OK, have confirmed that the above steps work. After installing "full language support" I had to re-boot though. A couple of additional things that I did were to check the "Enable support to enter complex characters" box in the Administration > Language Support menu, and I also explicitly told SCIM that I was using an "English (UK)" keyboard (Right-click on the SCIM icon in the notification area, choose SCIM Setup, go to FrontEnd > Global Setup and select your keyboard layout in the drop down list at the top of the panel).<br> <br>The input editor looks very similar to that Microsoft used to use with Windows 98 and NT4 for multi-byte input, only with more options, if memory serves. It looks very useful indeed. Hope your friend finds it intuitive.<br> <br>Here's a screenshot of some playing around with SCIM and gedit:<br><br><a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3019/2848701280_075da6bc8c_o.png">http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3019/2848701280_075da6bc8c_o.png</a><br> <br>Regards<br><br>Roger<br> </div></div><br></div>