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.

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?

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.

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)

Ah. I forgot about that. (Too simple to remember.) The third option, Always, places an icon at the bottom right of the screen that cannot be moved. It is really annoying.