Debian java japanese input method and display problem
Hi there everyone,
My name is David Marceau. I am researching how to develop a java gui that is
multilingual and that accepts japanese character input. How do I make Debian
java jdk1.5 accept japanese character input and properly display these in a java
gui components(i.e. textarea/combobox...)?
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CURRENT CONFIGURATION
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I am using:
-Debian unstable version
-Debian is configured japanese EUC-JP.
-Debian keyboard input for japanese works via "kinput2 -canna" with mozilla and
openoffice with no problems.
Here is how I installed jdk1.5 with debian unstable:
# in order to have make-jpkg, you need to install the virtual package
# "java-package". You need to download the jdk15.bin file from sun.
# Then you create a .deb/knoppix package with this.
fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-1_5_0-linux-i586.bin
dpkg -i sun-j2sdk1.5_1.5.0+final_i386.deb
apt-get install sun-j2sdk1.5debian
#once it is installed
#the command lines aren't pointing to the new 1.5 tools
# you need to do the following
update-alternatives --config java
update-alternatives --config javac
update-alternatives --config serialver
# there are many other jdk command-line tools that need to have
# their alternatives changed to point to the 1.5 bin path
# update-alternatives --config serialver
#
# There are 3 alternatives which provide `serialver'.
#
# Selection Alternative
# -----------------------------------------------
# + 1 /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/bin/serialver
# 2 /usr/bin/serialver-cp
# * 3 /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/bin/serialver
#
# Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: 3
# Using `/usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/bin/serialver' to provide `serialver'
#
# Do this update-alternatives dance to all the jdk tools you need to use.
# If you don't you will come up with
# some funky errors you won't know where they came from
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TO DEMONSTRATE WHERE MY PROBLEM ARISES
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cd jdk1.5.0/demo/jfc/Font2DTest
java -jar Font2DTest.jar
When I select "USER TEXT" in the range combo box, a popup textarea dialog is
shown. When I do shift+space to enter japanese input method mode, the
characters I type display square gray blocks as opposed to true japanese
hiragana/katakana/kanji.
THAT IS THE PROBLEM...it doesn't display what I type properly.
NOTE: Below the improperly displayed text is an update button that takes what I
typed in the user text box and draws this into the main dialog's font canvas.
Surprisingly when I press the update button, the main dialog's font canvas
displays the hiragana/katakana/kanji properly while the user text dialog's
characters still display my input with square blocks???
I am aware of
jfc/CodePointIM/CodePointIM.jar
docs/guide/imf/spi-sample/CityIM.jar
and I tried putting them in the jre/lib/ext directory but I didn't see any
changes. It still displayed square blocks when I type in japanese input mode.
That said I didn't see the expected input method menu in the window's command
button displayed.
Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for considering
my request.
どうぞ よろしく おねがいします、
デービッド マルソー
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