Comments on: SCIM and Crux

By: Eirik

Eirik — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:42:51 +0000

By: Eirik

Eirik — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:42:17 +0000

On the off-chance that you get email alerts on new comments on old posts, thank you!

I’ve been mildly annoyed for years that I could get scim+anthy+custom .xsession to work with utf8, English language and Norwegian characters/locale, and *reading* Japanese in the console, but no input…

Finally I figured out that all that was missing was a simple -imlocale ja_JP.UTF-8 parameter to my urxvtc invocations… Not quite because of this blogpost, but sort of

Anyway, now I can finaly ctrl-space for Japanese input in the terminal, not just gtk apps!

To clarify, for other googlers: On Debian, to get unicode, Japanese input etc to work with anotherwise non-Japanese localized install:

On startup of X11 (eg: in .xsession):
export XMODIFIERS=”@im=SCIM”
export GTK_IM_MODULE=”scim”
export XIM_PROGRAM=”scim -d”
export QT_IM_MODULE=”scim”
scim -d &

Set your locale as normal, eg:

LANG=”en_GB.UTF-8″
LC_CTYPE=”nb_NO.UTF-8″
LC_NUMERIC=”nb_NO.UTF-8″
LC_TIME=”nb_NO.UTF-8″
LC_COLLATE=”nb_NO.UTF-8″
LC_MONETARY=”nb_NO.UTF-8″
LC_MESSAGES=”en_GB.UTF-8″
LC_PAPER=”nb_NO.UTF-8″
LC_NAME=”nb_NO.UTF-8″
LC_ADDRESS=”nb_NO.UTF-8″
LC_TELEPHONE=”nb_NO.UTF-8″
LC_MEASUREMENT=”nb_NO.UTF-8″
LC_IDENTIFICATION=”nb_NO.UTF-8″

Start up your urxvt-daemon (to share some resources, similar to how gnome-terminal works):

urxvtd -q -f -o

And start your terminals (from .xsession or manually):

urxvtc -rv -vb -geometry “$103×57+280+2″ -imlocale ja_JP.UTF-8

Relevant packages:
scim-anthy rxvt-unicode-ml
(And pretty much everything that matches (with debtags installed):
aptitude search ‘?and(?tag(culture::japanese), ?tag(x11::font))’

-e

By: johnraff

johnraff — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:53:27 +0000

…or encoding?
Those funny boxes look like what I get when I try to view an SJIS encoded file in UTF8.

But scim shouldn’t be using SJIS …

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By: bkanev

bkanev — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:18:08 +0000

yeah, I see now – you are right, it must be fonts problem

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:59:15 +0000

Hmm. I think you can see the problem I’m having in the screenshot — the text in Leafpad should look like the text in urxvt, but instead it’s a strange conglomeration of characters — no kana at all.

I’m pretty sure there’s some sort of outside setting that I need to adjust.

By: bkanev

bkanev — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:16:32 +0000

I think, if I get it right, those symbols you refer to as problematic fonts, are the phonetic transcription of the letters/ words/ sounds in Japanese.