Japanese Input (finally) solved

[toyfactory]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:45:37 +0900, "Jan Morén"
<jan.moren at lucs.lu.se> said:
> lör 2005-02-26 klockan 16:17 +0900 skrev toyfactory:
> > > > > Since there were no more posts in the thread I wondered if
> > > > > he/she managed to get it working.  Anyone have any ideas about
> > > > > getting Anthy and UIM to work with OpenOffice?
> > > >
> > > > It works for me. Try:
> > > >
> > > > export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 oowriter
> > >
> > > Thanks, I'll give it a go when I get back to my Ubuntu PC.  If you
> > > don't hear from me, assume I got it working!  Cheers,
> >
> > Guess what...

> One thing: is this a problem specifically in OOffice, or is it not
> working anywhere? Can you write hiragana in the terminal, for example?

It was a problem with OOffice, entering the above export string didn't
seem
to work.  Fortunately I managed to fix the problem after reading this
page:
http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/input.html

What I needed to do was add LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 to /etc/environment

Cheers,

Nick