Re: [tlug] Suse blues-progress?

[paul arenson <paul@example.com>]

Well, I have been stumped by the problem of no Kanji input.

I was asked to cut and paste, and noted I could not cut and paste a dialogue 
box message.

I went back and reviewed some old messages from here and other places, but it 
seems they might apply to running Linux installed in English.  I did a 
Japanese install and have the same problem.  At least one user here, Lyle, 
has tried both and in Japanese, seems to be ok with Kanji input.


What I HAVE found, is that I can pop in a Knoppix Japanese disk CD and get 
Japanese with it.  So it SEEMS my computer is not incapable....

Dr. Fabian sent me something, but it seems related to ENGLISH systems.....
so I will wait on that....

Others here have sent suggestions too, but again, seem to be related to 
English installations to whch I want to add Kanji.
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Just NOW I found this on the net!

THIS SEEMS TO BE EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM


http://lists.suse.com/archive/m17n/2002-Dec/0008.html
"From: ugroh@example.com (Ulrich Groh)
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 11:24:50 +0100
Message-Id: <200212291124.50430.ugroh@example.com>
Subject: [m17n] Canna Server

 I am running SuSE 8.1. and have the following problem with the canna server: 
 
1. In xemacs I can't use japanese-canna . I always get the message "... Kanji 
 server can't be used" in japanese. I can enter Hiragana but not Kanji. 
 
2. The canna server is running. I stoped and restarted it with the 
 /etc/init.d/canna command. 
 
3. If I use cannstat or cshost I always get the message "Error Disconnected" 
 
4. In my /etc/hosts.canna file I have localhost and unix as entry. 
 
How can I find out what I am missing? "

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This message suggests there is a subset of people who have troubles with Kanji 
but not Kana........

Unfortunately, I did not find a response to him.  I wonder if he bought his 
computer in TWO TOP???? (Joke).



Meanwhile....THIS suggestion from someone (refelecting what some others have 
said) seems worth trying, but I get the feeling it is for English systems.

Please try the following:

1. Open konsole
2. Type "kinput2 -canna -xim &" and hit return
3. Type "XMODIFIERS=@example.com=kinput" and hit return
4. Type "export XMODIFIERS" and hit return
5. Type "LC_CTYPE=ja_JP LANG=en_US kterm -xim &" and hit return

This assumes that kinput2 and kterm (Kanji Terminal) are installed.
When kterm shows up, you should be able to enter Kanji mode with Shift+Space 
(or Control-O? I don't know if the defaults are different on SuSE).

You may also want to look for im-ja, which is a japanese IME for GTK2, much 
nicer than kinput2/XIM, but it will only work with GTK2 apps.

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But I think again, the message worth checking out is the one from the user in 
Germany.

http://lists.suse.com/archive/m17n/2002-Dec/0008.html



paul