[11:47] <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?
[15:27] <Emmanuel_Chanel> Hello!
[15:28] <Emmanuel_Chanel> sewardrobert: What input method do you use? ibus + mozc or ibus + anthy?
[15:28] <sewardrobert> Emmanuel_Chanel: How would I know?
[15:30] <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
[15:31] <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.
[15:32] <Emmanuel_Chanel> You can input Kanjis without Japanese keyboards. That's sure.
[15:33] <Emmanuel_Chanel> You can do also on Windows' MS-IMSE.
[15:35] <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?) .
[15:36] <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.
[15:37] <sewardrobert> Emmanuel_Chanel: Are you around for a bit? I need to start her laptop up and try again.
[15:38] <Emmanuel_Chanel> Yes.
[15:39] <Emmanuel_Chanel> She uses Lubuntu 14.04 now?
[15:40] <sewardrobert> Yes that is correct.
[15:44] <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.
[15:46] <Emmanuel_Chanel> I'm not 100% sure if it will help. But you will find the configuration editor for what you want.
[15:47] <Emmanuel_Chanel> Oh, there is http://moritzmolch.com/1453 Does it help you?
[15:48] <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?
[15:49] <Emmanuel_Chanel> Yes. Looks kho doesn't have Japanese output on IME, though.
[15:49] <Emmanuel_Chanel> Try input 愛 from inputting ai
[15:50] <Emmanuel_Chanel> Input ai and [CTRL] + [Space] one or some times after that.
[15:54] <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.
[15:55] <Emmanuel_Chanel> Oh...
[15:55] <Emmanuel_Chanel> Hhm...
[15:56] <Emmanuel_Chanel> Enable mozc with pushing [META] + [Space] and input ai and I click [Space] bar.
[16:05] <Emmanuel_Chanel> Someone others here?
[16:05] <Emmanuel_Chanel> sewardrobert: How does it go?
[17:00] <sewardrobert> Emmanuel_Chanel: Sorry I had a phone call.
[17:01] <sewardrobert> I reconfigured the Keyboard Input to use Control Space instead of "Super Space". But it behaves largely the same.
[17:02] <sewardrobert> Pressing Control Space and then typing "ai" and then space does not yeild Kanji. Instead it displays the english text "ai "
[17:03] <Emmanuel_Chanel> Hhm...
[17:03] <Emmanuel_Chanel> Is ibus daemon or so booted?
[17:03] <Emmanuel_Chanel> Oh, booted...
[17:05] <Emmanuel_Chanel> hhm... It's over midnight in Japan now. So hard to find other advisors...
[17:21] <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.
[17:40] <Emmanuel_Chanel> So solved?
[17:40] <Emmanuel_Chanel> Good to hear.
[18:05] <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.