input nightmare

[Liam Proven]

On 10 August 2014 16:51, Thomas Blasejewicz <thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp> wrote:
> I tried this and after some efforts the PC apparently downloaded those
> software packages.

OK, good.

> Theoretically, I do now have the software for the Japanese input, but still
> any efforts in making it work have failed.
>
> Would this maybe change, if I do (again!) a reinstallation using Japanese as
> language and later switch the IF to English?

It might. It could be worth a try. Although I can speak a tiny little
bit of Japanese (and was doing so yesterday, with a visitor here in
Brno in the Czech Republic) I can't read or write more than a few
dozen symbols, so I have never tried this myself.

If you don't want to wipe out the entire machine, you could do a test
install under VirtualBox as a proof of concept.

For what it's worth, living in a country where I need to be able to
type non-Western accented characters -- e.g. I live on a street called
Hybešova so I need that lower-case S-háček, plus š, č, ř and so on --
I found that the Unity version of Ubuntu made keyboard-layout
customisation (to add a Compose key) fairly easy. I was not able to
achieve this under either Lubuntu or Xubuntu and had to add xmodmap
commands to my .bashrc to get this working, which was *substantially*
more complicated and required a lot of Googling and hours of
experimentation to get it working.

I don't know if this is relevant, I merely offer it as potentially
useful information.

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