[SOLVED] Japanese fonts in Skype via Anthy. (ubuntu 10.04)

Howlingstar89 · 05-21-2011, 01:04 AM

I have successfully installed Japanese language packages and Anthy as well as Skype. These were simple. There is a problem though and that is when I use the keyboard shortcut to activate the switch between language fonts in Skype there is no effect. What do I have to do to get the fonts to work within Skype? It works just fine with firefox, gedit and other programs; just Skype. Could this perhaps be a bug within Skype that I have no control over? Please help.

P.S.
I am a casual user, I am not a superior 1337 haxor, but I do like linux because of it's open source. Usually I can figure things out on my own but I am stuck in a rut.

David the H. · 05-22-2011, 05:45 AM

How exactly are you launching the program? Do you get any output when launching it from the terminal?

anthy is just the IM backend. Which input method framework are you using? ibus, scim, scim-bridge, uim?

skype appears to use qt4, so do you have all the necessary qt extensions for your framework installed also? ibus-qt4/scim-qtimm/scim-bridge-client-qt4/uim-qt? (I'm going from my debian sources here, *buntu may have different package names.)

What are your IM environment settings? What output do you get with the command

Code:

env | grep '[IX]M'

I've never used skype, and now thanks to Microsoft I never will, but some googling shows me that it's probably an environment setting issue. This page, for example: http://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/detail?id=613

Howlingstar89 · 05-23-2011, 02:21 AM

>To launch these programs I have made GUI shortcuts.
>ibus is the input method framework I am using.
>I did not have all of the framework extensions needed. After installing them the issue was resolved.
> The code, env | grep '[IX]M' did not seem to have any effect when I put it into the terminal. I am not sure what was supposed to happen if anything, but skype is now accepting the fonts.

Skype is the best VoIP I've used that is free, though I am not sure if it'll stay nice with it in Microsofts hands, yet for the time being it is wonderful to speak with people all over the world via Skype. Thank you very much, this helps me out tremendously.
どうもありがとございます。

David the H. · 05-24-2011, 12:01 AM

env displays your current environment settings. The grep command filters the output to show only lines that contain "IM" or "XM" (case-sensitive). The result should include those variables important to your IME, like this:

Code:

$ env | grep '[IX]M'
GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus

The IM_MODULE settings tell the GTK and QT programs you launch which input method to use, and XMODIFIERS is the fallback setting for everything else. When only certain programs don't work, this is often the reason.

Your system should set them automatically though. Or use the im-switch command to ensure that the IME you want to use is properly configured.

Unfortunately, my favorite page describing multi-language support seems to be down. I hope it's just temporary. The last archived version is here:

http://web.archive.org/web/200904010...nl/stestu.html

It's three years out-of-date though. The new ibus framework isn't mentioned, for example.