Re: vim6 + IM

[Matthew Tippett <matthew.tippett@sympatico.ca>]

If you install language-env and then run set-language-env it will do
most of your environment for you.  I do it as another user then use
Xnest to seperate the environments (I don't understand japanese properly
yet).

BTW gnome-terminal with antialiased fonts works quite well for japanese
as well. :)

The only thing that was needed for me to get Japanese input working in
most cases is starting kinput2 and setting

export LANG=ja_JP
export XMODIFIERS="@im=kinput2"

(Although you may just want to set LC_ALL=ja_JP if you don't speak
japanese.natively).

Regards,

Matt

Mattia Dongili wrote:
> hi
> 
> I'm trying to use vim to input japanese inside a kterm. For what I read
> it seems to be possible, but I still haven't found how...
> I'm following the multibyte pages of vim :help and I have to say that
> using gvim to input japanese it's been quite simple:
> 
> LC_CTYPE=ja_JP gvim '+set encoding=euc-jp' '+set imak=S-space' '+set guifontset=-misc-mincho-medium-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-jisx0208.1983-*'
> 
> For the moment I'm using jvim but I'd like to get rid of colors and all
> the advanced features available in vim.
> 
> Well, first of all is it possible?
> I can easily display japanese characters via the 
> vim '+set encoding=euc-jp' <FILE> command, but
> vim gives an error trying to set imak=S-space. Suspicious...
> 
> somewhere I read that I need to start kterm with the -xim option but
> this doesn't change the result.
> 
> I'm using sarge and I installed kinput2-canna, cannaserver, almost every
> japanese font, lv, gs-cjk-*,... and their dependencies. Actually since I
> can use gvim to input kanji it shouldn't be a missing package issue.
> 
> some more info:
> xrdb -query
> *.inputMethod:	kinput2      <--- those should be useless actually
> *.preeditType:	OverTheSpot  <---/
> *international:	True         <--/
> *customization:	-color
> Kinput2*CcWnn.ccdef:	ccdef.kinput2.egg
> Kinput2*conversionStartKeys:	Shift<Key>space
> XLock*logoutButton:	-1
> kterm*reverseVideo:	true
> 
> relevant environment
> TERM=kterm
> XMODIFIERS=@im=kinput2
> LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15
> 
> 有難うございます (correct? :)
> 
> anyway thanks for every bit of help you can give
>