Japanese input with English UI under Mandrake Linux 10.0

erikanderson3

Hello all --

I've spent some time trying to figure this one out. I ran across this helpful page over at U Wiscoonsin, but I can't seem to get it to work. I presume it's one of the environment variables in $HOME/.i18n, but which one? Setting LC_CTYPE to en_US gives me the UI in English, but it also disables Japanese input, even though kinput2 is still running... Question

Any help is appreciated.

TIA,

Erik

erikanderson3 · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 4:54 pm Post subject:

I've gotten the configuration to work, but only on a different user account -- I think my KDE has locked up into a specific configuration, as I've discovered that it's completely ignoring my .i18n file. I manually switched it back to completely English settings, and KDE still came up with Japanese. Hmph. I then made sure that KDE was not restoring a previous session -- but same results.

I'll spend some time tonight dorking about with the contents of the ~/.kde folder and see what I find. I'll also try changing the localization settings explicitly using the KDE control panels. If all else fails, I may simply delete the ~/.kde folder and see if that works. Twisted Evil

(after backing up what I need, of course)

I'll post my .i18n file (the one that works on the other user account) later tonight once I get back home to my Mandrake box, just in case anyone else might find a use for CJK (Chinese - Japanese - Korean) input with an English UI.

Cheers,

Erik

erikanderson3 · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 5:25 pm Post subject:

Now I can't figure out *what* I did on that other user account. I thought I walked through all the steps to recreate it, but OOo still comes up with a Japanese UI. Argh. Exporting LC_ALL=en_US does the expected and forces an English UI, but it also disables any Japanese input -- not useful. It also seems to render OOo unable to recognize Japanese filenames -- they look like complete gibberish, and attempts to open such a file simply produce a "file not found" error. Likewise for LC_CTYPE=en_US.

I can't figure out what I did on the other account. I even tried just copying over the .i18n file, but no dice. Opening OOo and going through Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Language and specifically choosing English (USA) does exactly squat. Help me out here, is this a bug? I think I'll report it as one, as changing this setting under Linux seems to do nothing at all. For that matter, I just tried under Win2K and it also seems to do -- Nothing! Whee. What is this setting for? Window dressing? Manually tweaking .openoffice/user/registry/data/org/openoffice/Setup.xcu to read the following:

erikanderson3 · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 7:14 am Post subject:

<grimble grumble>

Note to self --
Working out complicated issues is much easier after adequate sleep. Confused

After considerable frustration, I backed off for a while, and then started over from the beginning. I have now had success, thanks to Halldór Narfi Stefánsson's page.

The key was to ditch the ~/.openoffice folder (or backup, but since mine had nothing but the usual install info, I just hit rm -rf), and then run OOo from a console after entering

jkim · Guest

Would this work for KOREAN setting also? (with Eng. Menus)
Or do I need some adjustments? and how?
Thanks

erikanderson3 · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 7:36 pm Post subject:

All I can say is try it and see. I suspect it will; so far it's worked for Japanese and Swedish. It seems part of the key is the .UTF-8 suffix on locale variables.

Let us know if it works out! Smile

Cheers,

Erik

LBWood · Guest

This is a duplicate post to another one I put in the General Discussion Forum.

Setting up RH9.0 and GNOME for Korean Input

1.Confirm that Korean language support has been installed.
System settings -> Language should display a dialog box that displays Korean as a choice.
If not, an update install will probably be required to install the additional languages.

2.Confirm that Ami, the Korean IME, has been installed.
Accessories -> More Accessories should have it.

3.Confirm that your home directory contains .Xclients-default.
If the file is not there, run the switchdesk program in a terminal window to create it.

4.Edit .Xclients-default and add the following line immediately before the exec command:
LC_ALL=ko_KR LANG=ko_KR ami &

5.Restart GNOME. The Ami preferences dialog should appear in the window list (in Korean).
You can close it if you wish.

6.Create a file called kinputx that contains the following command line within:
XMODIFIERS="@im=Ami" LANGUAGE=en_US LC_CTYPE=ko_KR ${1+"$@"} @

7.Make kinputx executable:
chmod 755 kinputx

8.Move kinputx to either /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin.

9.If Ami is not already running, start it now.
Accessories -> More Accessories -> Ami will bring it up in English.

10.Open a terminal window and start up the program you want as a parameter of kinputx:
E.g., kinputx oowriter

11.Confirm that Ami is active.
[EN] should appear underneath the cursor.

12.Select a Korean font from the font drop-down box.

13.Type <Shift><Spacebar> to switch to Korean input.
[KR] should appear underneath the cursor.

Note that this example will bring up oowriter with English menus and dialog boxes.
If you want it in Korean, substitute LC_ALL for LC_CTYPE in Step 6.