tlug: gtk and kinput2

[John Seebach <jseebach@example.com>]

Hello, everyone.

So I have a nice idea for a logo, complete with a couple of japanese
characters. "Gee," I ask myself, "I wonder if I can use the gimp for this?"

So, just for fun, I change my LANG environment variable to ja_JP.EUC, and
run the gimp (1.1.14).

Lo and behold, the gimp comes up in Japanese, with menus and everything.
Even the tip of the day is in nihongo. I'm impressed. Everything seems to
work perfectly.

Until, that is, I try to input text. The little kinput2 window with the
hiragana あ faithfully pops up, and starts flashing on and off like a
pachinko parlour. I type, but nothing happens. If I'm lucky, I can open an
xterm and kill off the kinput2 process. If I'm not, my keyboard locks up
and sometimes takes down my X server with it.

I have similar problems with other programs that use the gimp toolkit as
well (for example, gjiten, a gtk-based japanese-english dictionary that
uses edict dictionaries. It looks really promising, but there's not much
point in using a dictionary if I can't enter the japanese that I want to
look up...), and am wondering if other people have had this problem or if
anyone's found a way to get gtk applications and japanese text input to
co-exist peacefully.  I'm assuming that someone has, or else translating
the gimp into japanese would have been an incredible waste of effort.

If anyone has mastered the dark art of getting @#&$!* kinput2 to work with
anything besides a kterm, I'd appreciate some suggestions.

john
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