| sewardrobert | Hello, my daughter is learning Japanese and using lbuntu on an older laptop. How can she enter Kanji characters? Etc. I tried adding a Japanese "Keyboard Input" for her. Pressing "Super Space" key sequence shows "JP and US" in a nice dialog on the screen. However regardless of how the input is toggled, Kanji char input sequences do NOT output Kanji chars. Any advice? | 11:47 |
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| Emmanuel_Chanel | Hello! | 15:27 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | sewardrobert: What input method do you use? ibus + mozc or ibus + anthy? | 15:28 |
| sewardrobert | Emmanuel_Chanel: How would I know? | 15:28 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | I'm not good at US Keyboards since I'm a Japanese man using Japanese Keyboards. But you can see what software she has installed by aptitude | 15:30 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | $aptitude search ibus-anthy | 15:30 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | $aptitude search ibus-mozc | 15:30 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | Oh, you installed Japanese keyboard. So click [全角/半角]([Zenkaku/Hankaku]) on the left top corner. | 15:31 |
| sewardrobert | Emmanuel_Chanel: Ha! I was thinking of buying a Japanese USB keyboard for her. But she has to learn these key sequences when she uses software at school. | 15:31 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | You can input Kanjis without Japanese keyboards. That's sure. | 15:32 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | You can do also on Windows' MS-IMSE. | 15:33 |
| sewardrobert | Emmanuel_Chanel: This is on lbuntu with LXDE. Hitting "Super Space" key brings up a dialog that toggles between "JP and US". However the dialog seems to have no affect. I try to type "kho" for that symbol but all I see in gedit or abiword are the english characters "kho". I was expecting that when the Japanese Keyboard input is active, that "kho" would produce the corresponding Japanese symbol (kanji?) . | 15:35 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | Can I see her screen shot? I don't know if I could find something. You need to blacken her personal info, though. | 15:36 |
| sewardrobert | Emmanuel_Chanel: Are you around for a bit? I need to start her laptop up and try again. | 15:37 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | Yes. | 15:38 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | She uses Lubuntu 14.04 now? | 15:39 |
| sewardrobert | Yes that is correct. | 15:40 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | Left Click the ibus icon on the panel. The 2nd top icon of lench is for configuration. You see the edit button on the right of MS-IME or so. | 15:44 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | I'm not 100% sure if it will help. But you will find the configuration editor for what you want. | 15:46 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | Oh, there is http://moritzmolch.com/1453 Does it help you? | 15:47 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | How about switch from Super+Space to CTRL+Space ? | 15:48 |
| sewardrobert | Emmanuel_Chanel: This is the first time I have tried to use Linux to generate symbols outside of "english" characters. Is my expectation correct? That once Japanese Keyboard Input is configured properly and active, that a keyboard sequence of "kho" should output the corresponding Kanji character? | 15:48 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | Yes. Looks kho doesn't have Japanese output on IME, though. | 15:49 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | Try input 愛 from inputting ai | 15:49 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | Input ai and [CTRL] + [Space] one or some times after that. | 15:50 |
| sewardrobert | Oh. So you input the character sequence and the "Super Space" or "Control Space" (whatever you have configured). I expected it to be the reverse. | 15:54 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | Yes. | 15:54 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | Oh... | 15:55 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | Hhm... | 15:55 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | Enable mozc with pushing [META] + [Space] and input ai and I click [Space] bar. | 15:56 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | Someone others here? | 16:05 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | sewardrobert: How does it go? | 16:05 |
| sewardrobert | Emmanuel_Chanel: Sorry I had a phone call. | 17:00 |
| sewardrobert | I reconfigured the Keyboard Input to use Control Space instead of "Super Space". But it behaves largely the same. | 17:01 |
| sewardrobert | Pressing Control Space and then typing "ai" and then space does not yeild Kanji. Instead it displays the english text "ai " | 17:02 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | Hhm... | 17:03 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | Is ibus daemon or so booted? | 17:03 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | Oh, booted... | 17:03 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | hhm... It's over midnight in Japan now. So hard to find other advisors... | 17:05 |
| sewardrobert | Emmanuel_Chanel: http://moritzmolch.com/1453 seems to be very useful. I didn't have Japanese Language support installed. I am working on that currently. | 17:21 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | So solved? | 17:40 |
| Emmanuel_Chanel | Good to hear. | 17:40 |
| sewardrobert | Installed Japanese language support (with anthy) and then re-configured my Keyboard Input to have "Japanese - Anthy" and now I have Kanji! | 18:05 |
| sewardrobert | Emmanuel_Chanel: Thank you. I am bookmarking that URL. | 18:05 |
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