Re: Open Office and German / Japanese Input

[Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com>]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:20:35PM +0900, Dietrich Bollmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Every now and then I have to write something in German or Japanese.  And
> normally this entails about one week of trials to make Open Office work
> again with "scim" or "uim" (both input methods).  When finally
> everything works, it is normally too late for my letter but there is
> still time enough to give Open Office a chance to not work anymore when
> needed again.
> 
> I am using debian sid with a en_GB.UTF-8 local.
> When writing Japanese I normally use "uim" together with "Anthy".
> When writing German I use "uim" with "m17n-latn-pre" which allows to
> input German "Umlaute" with an english keyboard by entering something
> like "a, "o, "u, ...
> 
> Currently none of them work in Open Office.  (but - with lots of crashes
> though - sometimes do so in "evolution": 日本語、たとえば、und
> glücklicherweise auch Deutsch mit Üs, äs und Ös :)
> 
> A while ago I managed to make Open Office work with scim using the
> following script: 
> 
>   #!/bin/sh
> 
>   # setting Japanese utf8 locale
>   locale=ja_JP.utf8
>   LANG=$locale;     export LANG
>   LANGUAGE=$locale; export LANGUAGE
>   LC_CTYPE=$locale; export LC_CTYPE
> 
>   # using scim as input method
>   XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM;  export XMODIFIERS
               *********
That should be quoted: "@im=SCIM"

>   GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"; export GTK_IM_MODULE
> 
>   # start scim if not already running
>   if [ -z "$(ps -A | grep -i scim)" ]; then
>    scim -d ### &> /dev/null &
>   fi

Here is my scim script (I have it in .xsession)

export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"
export QT_IM_MODULE="scim"
export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.utf8
#export LANG=ja_JP.utf8
#export LC_ALL=ja_JP.utf8
/usr/bin/scim -d &

I don't use the LANG setting because I want my menus to 
be in English. LC_ALL changes a bunch of those values
at one time.


>   # execute command given on environment
>   $@
> 
>   # fin.
> 
> but even this fails now.
> 
> Any idea how to make Open Office work with "uim" or "scim" again?
> 
> Thanks, Dietrich, grateful for any help!

-- 
Joel Roth