From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 4 16:33: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6422937B405 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:32:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from scott1.nyc.rr.com (24-168-24-11.nyc.rr.com [24.168.24.11]) by nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (8.12.1/Road Runner SMTP Server 1.0) with ESMTP id g050WPq4002885; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 19:32:25 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020104072922.00c1dd20@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> X-Sender: scottro@pop-server.nyc.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 07:34:13 -0500 To: Dave Glowacki , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Scott Subject: Re: Japanese input? In-Reply-To: <200201050012.g050Clk23707@hyde.ssec.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 18:12 2002/01/04 -0600, Dave Glowacki wrote: >We have a Japanese high-school student staying with us through >June, so I've been working on getting Japanese language support >on my FreeBSD system. I built and installed all the Japanese >KDE ports and browsing Japanese web pages works well. > >Input, however has been a bit more of a problem. I installed >the kinput2-canna+sj3+freewnn port because that seemed like >the most inclusive port. > >After starting the kinput2 program, 'ps auxww' shows it running >and 'cannastat' indicates that it's a client of the cannaserver. > >Typing Shift+Space does nothing. > >I'm at a lose as to what is wrong. Does anybody have any >debugging tips or an idea of what I've done wrong? This is more of a me too type answer, I'm afraid. There's a page on the kde website that might be of help, if you haven't seen it. http://freekde.org/article.php?sid=5&mode=nested&order=0 There's also a very detailed page, although more oriented towards SuSE Linux at http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/node1.html >Lastly, my own, RH specific page--RH is one of the few *nix type distros >I've come across that supports it without much effort out of the box. (If >you ever do get it working properly, it's got some nice little scripts >that might be useful) http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/jpninpt.html >HTH a little at least Scott Robbins PS, if you do get it working, please post how you solved the problems. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message