Re: How to make Japanese Input on Debian testing work?

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

Hi,

> >>I had a similar problem with firefox and thunderbird, until one
> >>explained me that some crucial environment variables were needed:
> >>
> >>GTK_IM_MODULE=uim ; export GTK_IM_MODULE
> >>QT_IM_MODULE=uim ; export QT_IM_MODULE
> >>XMODIFIERS=@im=uim ; export XMODIFIERS

Well this is what I initially thought.  But SCIM packager told me
otherwise.  Just last one is enough with GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
and QT_IM_MODULE=xim.  Which will be likely to cause less trouble.

First, im-switch package (which I am part of it.) is good start.
Then I recommend scim-anthy for Japanese.

If you also want to have traditional encoding terminals, m17n-env
package may help.

If your primary language is not Japanese, you probably want to keep
display (or default locale) other than Japanese.  

scim and im-switch package comes with ample discussion on how to do it.

Good luck. 

Osamu

FYI: 
I am using scim-anthy under en_US.UTF-8.
Osamu