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

[Dietrich Bollmann <d.bollmann@tu-berlin.de>]

> > > > 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.
>   
Hi Osamu,
in which file do you put these three lines?
I tried .gnomerc - but this seems to be not used anymore.
And I read that the .bashrc is the wrong place to use...

Thanks :) Dietrich

by the way - do you know how I can hide my email from the list??

> 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
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