Japanese input on a LFS system

Vitalie Ciubotaru · 09-13-2007, 06:04 PM

Not sure I can clearly shape my question... I am able to view Japanese characters in, say, Mozilla, but I'm unable to key them in. Another OS had several input methods to choose from. I'd welcome either, just need a clue how to get it to work.
LFS-6.1.1 said multibyte locales, including ja_Ja are not supported. Not sure it's relevant, but if it is, is there a workaround for it?

frazum · 09-14-2007, 10:42 AM

You need to have a input method app with correct appropriate font installed. One such apps is uim: http://code.google.com/p/uim/wiki/WhatsUIM That should give you a start. Once you have it installed, make sure it executes the uim-toolbar-systray when your system starts so you can choose your input method directly from the system tray later on.

Vitalie Ciubotaru · 12-16-2007, 01:24 PM

Anybody able to type in Chinese, Japanese or Korean in LFS? Please share your experience.

Vitalie CIUBOTARU

gerald_M2B · 12-16-2007, 05:04 PM

scim package implements the smart common input method.
It is most useful for the far eastern languages which use multi-character input.
http://www.scim-im.org
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/scim
Debian packages:
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/scim
Distributions may have their own version of this package.
I do not use this package, but I suspect that this is the main input method for
many far eastern languages, including Japanese, various Chinese, Korean languages.

Gerald

chutsu · 12-30-2007, 12:28 PM

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hint...iles/jlenv.txt

I think this might help! =)