Comments on: Unraveling SCIM and UIM http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/unraveling-scim-and-uim/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:08:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: johnraff http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/unraveling-scim-and-uim/#comment-35369 johnraff Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:17:28 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=835#comment-35369 I have to input Japanese quite often, but to be honest with scim/anthy I've had no problems to speak of. Just an occasional bit of buggyness usually fixed by turning it off and on again. You can set the on/off switch to any key you want (I use the zenkaku/hankaku key) so you can make it the same as whatever the people you're helping were using before. My only real gripe with scim is that I haven't found out how to make it forget about Chinese, Korean etc. Whatever boxes I uncheck, those unwanted options keep coming up. I have to input Japanese quite often, but to be honest with scim/anthy I’ve had no problems to speak of. Just an occasional bit of buggyness usually fixed by turning it off and on again. You can set the on/off switch to any key you want (I use the zenkaku/hankaku key) so you can make it the same as whatever the people you’re helping were using before.

My only real gripe with scim is that I haven’t found out how to make it forget about Chinese, Korean etc. Whatever boxes I uncheck, those unwanted options keep coming up.

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/unraveling-scim-and-uim/#comment-35365 K.Mandla Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:08:04 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=835#comment-35365 Ah, excellent suggestions. Thanks very, very much. I'll play-test these over the next day or so, and configure them on the real machine when the time comes. If you have any other suggestions specific to Japanese Ubuntu users, I'd would be very interested in hearing them. It's an area I only touch obliquely because I don't use the tools a native speaker would want, so everything is pretty much brand new again. :| Ah, excellent suggestions. Thanks very, very much. I’ll play-test these over the next day or so, and configure them on the real machine when the time comes.

If you have any other suggestions specific to Japanese Ubuntu users, I’d would be very interested in hearing them. It’s an area I only touch obliquely because I don’t use the tools a native speaker would want, so everything is pretty much brand new again. :|

]]> By: johnraff http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/unraveling-scim-and-uim/#comment-35364 johnraff Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:14:09 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=835#comment-35364 btw you might want to check out kasumi, a plug-in personal dictionary for Anthy, so you can add your own special words and have them come up eg in katakana, not some obscure kanji combination. btw you might want to check out kasumi, a plug-in personal dictionary for Anthy, so you can add your own special words and have them come up eg in katakana, not some obscure kanji combination.

]]> By: johnraff http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/unraveling-scim-and-uim/#comment-35363 johnraff Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:47:36 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=835#comment-35363 Built-in SCIM is one of the improvements that arrived in Xubuntu around Edgy or so, (as a compensation for the extra heavyness :) ) and to get Japanese input working I just had to go to [system > language support] and add it. I'm sure it would be no harder in a full Gnome/Gutsy system. If you've got Japanese keyboards it should be a breeze, and it sounds as if you've already got it working on a non-japanese one too. I haven't tried UIM yet, but it's true that in a few situations I've found it impossible to get SCIM input going. (Some older apps don't even seem to be able to display Japanese, though, which can't be a question of using the right input method.) Also I found when using Kazehakase odd SCIM panels would pop up for no reason (korean, unicode, moreobscure...) - I thought it was kazehakase buggyness but maybe it was SCIM? Built-in SCIM is one of the improvements that arrived in Xubuntu around Edgy or so, (as a compensation for the extra heavyness :) ) and to get Japanese input working I just had to go to [system > language support] and add it. I’m sure it would be no harder in a full Gnome/Gutsy system. If you’ve got Japanese keyboards it should be a breeze, and it sounds as if you’ve already got it working on a non-japanese one too.

I haven’t tried UIM yet, but it’s true that in a few situations I’ve found it impossible to get SCIM input going. (Some older apps don’t even seem to be able to display Japanese, though, which can’t be a question of using the right input method.)

Also I found when using Kazehakase odd SCIM panels would pop up for no reason (korean, unicode, moreobscure…) - I thought it was kazehakase buggyness but maybe it was SCIM?

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