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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#38112: Japanese input with kinput2 does not display
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-02-20 22:37:28
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On Tuesday 19 February 2002 11:26 pm, Michael Häckel wrote:
> On Thursday 14 February 2002 20:22:20, meinke@pa.msu.edu wrote:
> > I use kinput2 to enter Japanese. As I type the characters should appear.
> > I don't get any feedback, however, until I hit enter or the space bar
> > twice. The latter brings up the character chooser as it should.  The
> > input works fine with a small qt application compiled against the same
> > library.
>
> Does it also work in the "widgets" example from Qt in the edit fields on
> the tabs "First" and "Second"?
>
> Did this work better with earlier versions of KMail? Actually Japanese
> should work well since KDE 2.1.1 and I think quite some people are using
> it.
>
> I just tried to get kinput2 running, but somehow it doesn't work.

I think this is a general problem of Qt3.

To quote Mike Fabian, one of my collegues:
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To input Japanese you need:

    ~$ rpm -i canna.rpm cannadic.rpm
    ~$ rccanna start
    ~$ rpm -i kinput2.rpm
    ~$ LANG=ja_JP LC_ALL=ja_JP kinput2 -xim -kinput -canna &
    ~$ export XMODIFIERS="@im=kinput2"
    ~$ LANG=ja_JP konsole &

(or '~$ LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 konsole &')

Then follow the instructions on

    http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/kinput2-canna-simple-exampl.html

I'll test whether this works now. Japanese input generally works in
KDE3, but it is quite inconvenient compared to KDE2 because of the
OnTheSpot input which is not implemented perfectly. In principle,
OnTheSpot input is best (also for Japanese) but the current
implementation in Qt3 is deficient. Compared to the current OnTheSpot
implementation in Qt3, the OverTheSpot implementation in Qt2 was
more convenient for Japanese.

The best solution would be to fix the problems with the current
OnTheSpot implementation, but that might be difficult. Second best
would be a possibility to use OverTheSpot as a fallback like it is
possible with Vim.
--- End of Quote ---

Maybe Lars can comment on this from a Qt point of view. KDE doesn't do 
anything in this area that I'm aware of but it could of course be that we do 
something that interacts poorly with kinput2 in which case we should fix 
that.

Cheers,
Waldo
-- 
Advanced technology only happens when people take a basic idea and add to it.
 -- Bob Bemer

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