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Writing Japanese on Fedora

robert | 04 April, 2005 14:21

The second part of the configuration is writing. I needed the following packages installed:

# yum install iiimf-gnome-im-switcher iiimf-le-canna iiimf-gtk iiimf-x Canna

Started the services (this is only required if you do not want to reboot)

# service iiim start
# service canna start

Then I added the Input Method Swither Applet to my GNOME panel. As a test I started and editor in a Japanese locale:

$ LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 GTK_IM_MODULE=iiim gedit

gedit in Japanese

As I want to continue to use all my desktop on english I added support for iiimf to the english locale (as explained on the IIIMF FAQ for Fedora Core Project)

$ mkdir ~/.xinput.d
$ ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/iiimf ~/.xinput.d/en_US.UTF-8

Restarted X, and I got what I wanted

gedit on english but with Japanese written text

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kde?

s_arie | 07/08/2005, 20:40

Hi...just wanted to say thanks for your explanation... before, I followed the Fedora FAQ, but I never really understood exactly what and why I was doing what I was doing.

out of curiousity, have you ever tried to get it to work in KDE?

Re: kde?

Robert | 07/08/2005, 23:27

Not really, the only QT application I use are Scribus and K3b. QT has experimental support for IIMF but I have not tried it.

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