Japanese Input solved

[toyfactory]

On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 13:44:00 -0500, "nashife"
<ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> said:
> 
> I'm guessing you're getting these messages through email, so editing my
> post won't get more information out to you... 
> 
> but here's what happens when I use "LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 oowriter" to
> open openoffice.   
> 
> my IME key combination (now <control>j) does not switch the IME.  But I
> have the uim panel icon installed, and I can click on it and select
> "hiragana", "katakana" etc, and the icon itself does change to the
> hiragana 'a' character.  But even when this works, openoffice still
> only types roman characters, even when I"m using the Kochi Gothic font.

I can't even remember where the option for changing the key combination
is!  The toolbar applet doesn't seem to work very well so I just use the
key combination.

My .gnomerc file looks like this: (there are a couple of lines commented
out from when I was fiddling around trying to get it working.)
export GTK_IM_MODULE=uim-anthy
export XMODIFIERS=@im=uim-anthy
#export LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
#export LC_CTYPE="ja_JP.UTF-8"
exec uim-helper-toolbar-gtk-systray&
exec uim-xim&

I don't seem to have a .uim file, but this is the last entry in
/etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules:
"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/immodules/im-uim.so"
"uim-default" "uim-default (*)" "gtk+" "" "*"
"uim-anthy" "uim-anthy (ja)" "gtk+" "" "ja"

These might be helpful:
http://anthy.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/hikien/hiki.cgi
http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/input.html

There's also an english language UIM mailing list run by the developers
somewhere .

Good luck!

Nick