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VEGAN · Jun 21, 2004, 05:13 AM

I have canna and kinput2 installed [via fink]. But I still don't quite understand how to make them work so I could use them in X11 [OpenOffice 1.1.2, etc].

Help!

wataru · Jun 21, 2004, 01:03 PM

That's a good question. I gave up on that long ago and switched to NeoOffice/J.

VEGAN · 05:11 AM

Originally posted by wataru:
That's a good question. I gave up on that long ago and switched to NeoOffice/J.

wataru, I assume you're Japanese is better than mine

I've seen some Japanese sites talking about this issue, but I couldn't understand it

Maybe you can help me out?

For example: http://www.sol.dti.ne.jp/~kikuyan/ma...11kotoeri.html

They talk about patching the kinput2 or something... I wonder if this might work...

OK, finally I've got as far as managing to get kinput2 start, but I can't see/use the Japanese fonts... ^^;; what am I suppused to do to get the Japanese fonts?

wataru · Jun 23, 2004, 12:40 AM

I'm stumped too; I can get kinput2 to start along with X11, but it doesn't respond to the keys that the website says should work. I'll keep digging around.

VEGAN · Jun 23, 2004, 03:04 AM

Originally posted by wataru:
I'm stumped too; I can get kinput2 to start along with X11, but it doesn't respond to the keys that the website says should work. I'll keep digging around.

I have the basic install of kinput2 and I can activate it with SHIFT-SPACE but that's it, the dialog window is question marks or something like that. I've tried to do the font substitution but nothing seems to work... i wonder what I've done wrong... It's a font issue I think... I tried to install something like kandara font but not even with that font... Osaka doesn't work... I don't know... anyone?

wataru · Jun 23, 2004, 10:22 PM

I don't see why it would be a font problem. None of the things I've read say anything about special fonts, and Terminal.app supports Japanese already without additional fonts.

My kinput2 doesn't respond to command+space or shift+space. Did you do anything special to get shift+space to work?

VEGAN · Jun 25, 2004, 12:46 PM

Originally posted by wataru:
I don't see why it would be a font problem. None of the things I've read say anything about special fonts, and Terminal.app supports Japanese already without additional fonts.

My kinput2 doesn't respond to command+space or shift+space. Did you do anything special to get shift+space to work?

No, I didn't do anything special, just the things most of the sites tell you to do.

The next thing is to make font substitution, and I can't get that working

http://homepage.mac.com/oz_k/open_soft/Personal7.html

wataru · Jun 25, 2004, 03:57 PM

Well part of my problem was that I put some related data in my ~/.bashrc as instructed, but apparently ~/.profile overrides that. That still hasn't fixed the overall problem, though.

wataru · Jul 6, 2004, 02:19 AM

I never did get kinput2 to do anything in X11, but I did find a Japanese font. It's the "fs-fonts" package in fink, only in unstable.

VEGAN · Jul 6, 2004, 02:30 AM

Originally posted by wataru:
I never did get kinput2 to do anything in X11, but I did find a Japanese font. It's the "fs-fonts" package in fink, only in unstable.

I'll take a look and report if I get anything working...
kinput2 does start and does something... but it doesn't convert to right kana/kanji. I'm still working on it.

wataru · Jul 6, 2004, 03:18 AM

Actually there are a number of Japanese font packages in fink. If you get FinkCommander you can search by package description; "Japanese" should find all of them for you.

I also just noticed a package in fink called "kinput2.macim." It appears to be the same as what you linked to earlier, but since it's automated maybe less could go wrong. I'll give it a try soon and report back.