Better Japanese Input Solution

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I described a method of Japanese input regarding a reinstallation of Linux and changing the system language to Japanese. This is suitable for a very narrow audience.

The following method may be much, much better:

I have not actually tested this method, but it looks as though it'll work. Only resort to my method if this doesn't work.

DO NOT REINSTALL

I sure hope everyone reads down the posts before taking jenovanomusuko's advice as gospel....

Instead:
1. Install fwnn and kinput2 - you can find these in the control center, yast2 modules, software by searching for them.

2. Do the following commands:
$ export XMODIFIERS="@im=kinput2"
$ export LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
$ kinput2 -xim -kinput -wnn &
$ gvim

3. In gvim hit 'Shift & Space' and you should see a small ? appear in a box at the base of your gvim window.

4. Refer to the following doco for more complete information:
http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/input.html

Originally posted by jenovanomusuko@Jul 6 2005, 04:31 AM
Credit B2|B2!*

Thanks for passing on the credit and B2|B2! would also like to thank you.