Cannot use Japanese in the terminal.
Hi,
I just installed Debian 6.0.6 on an old laptop machine. In order to handle Japanese language I added the following packages, using aptitude: otf-ipaexfont, ibus, anthy, ibus-anthy. I can now see home pages in Japanese using IceWeasel, as well as edit documents in Japanese. But if I want to type in Japanese at the terminal, it does not work anymore. Why is that? Did I forget something? I also have a somewhat similar configuration on another computer running Arch linux and there I can type in Japanese at the terminal. Thanks for any tip. |
Have you installed a multi-lingual terminal package? I have mlterm, but there are others.
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Ibus-anthy icon missing in KDE.
Thanks for the tip.
Finally it worked after I rebooted, without doing anything. This is using LXDE. In the meanwhile I installed the same OS (Debian 6.0.6) on a different computer, this time with KDE and I got a related but slightly different problem. I can use Japanese input based on Ibus-anthy, but this time the icon does not show up in the panel as it should, that prevents me from choosing the options I would like to use with anthy. Any hint would be welcome. Thanks in advance. |
Does KDE not have an Ibus (or Input Method) entry somewhere in its Settings menu?
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Well, after I installed it, Ibus got an entry. I do not think it could have had one before.
But in any case this entry gives me the choice between [several] possible method[s] to use with Ibus (in my case only anthy, since this is the only one I installed). Nevertheless it does not let me set the way anthy itself works. And this is my very problem. Normally I would set the options for anthy using its icon (which is now missing). |
In neither Ibus nor SCIM have I seen a way to modify the inputs methods. If it can be done, I do not know how. It is not a concern with Chinese, but I am unfamiliar with the set-up of Japanese.
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I just found a solution.
For those who might encounter the same problem. Here is the solution I just found.
In the General tab of Ibus Preferences, set Show language panel: to When active and it will make the icon appear when needed. The previous setting was Embedded in menu and I do not quite know what that means. (The icon was probably hidden somewhere in some menu) |
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