Japanese word processor???

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hillside · #1 Post by **hillside** » Sat 06 Dec 2008, 16:34

Pizzasgood was nice enough to point me to the Japanese fonts for
Puppy. Now I'm wondering if there is a Japanese word processor
for Puppy.

Typically, these allow you to type in roman characters and the
program guesses which Japanese characters you are intending to
enter. It provides you with a list of characters to select from. It's not
a fast way of typing, but with the Japanese language having so many
potential characters, there is no way to make a keyboard large
enough to do it by direct entry.

This isn't a program that I need, but it would be fun to use for
learning some Japanese.

Edit:

I've done some searching, but haven't come up with anything yet.

#2 Post by **Pizzasgood** » Sat 06 Dec 2008, 21:58

I think what you're looking for is called scim-canna. I haven't gotten around to trying it out or anything, so I don't know if there are dotpets on the forum (probably).

I do know that it has been made to work in Puppy. They use in in the Japanese Edition:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 61&t=36392
http://openlab.jp/puppylinux/index.html.en
http://sakurapup.browserloadofcoolness.com/

Caneri · #3 Post by **Caneri** » Sat 06 Dec 2008, 22:10

scim-canna is here http://www.puppylinux.asia/members/Irihapeti/

I hope this helps

Eric

hillside · #4 Post by **hillside** » Mon 08 Dec 2008, 12:38

Thanks guys.

I'm working on getting this working. No success yet on 4.0, but I'm
really close. It looks like everything is working, but the apps don't
seem to recognize it.

I think I'm going to install it on a version of 3.01. It looks like it should
be easier there. Like I said before, this is not a critical piece of
software for me, but I'd really like to be able to use it as a learning tool.
It'll give me something to do while everyone else is watching sports
on TV.

Thanks again.

Caneri · #5 Post by **Caneri** » Mon 08 Dec 2008, 14:09

Maybe Irihapeti can help you.

Eric

#6 Post by **Pizzasgood** » Mon 08 Dec 2008, 21:37

I was trying it the other day too, and couldn't get it working. Like you, it seemed to be fine. But when I opened an app like Geany, the icon didn't show up in the tray, and the key-combos didn't do anything. It's finals week though, so I'm not going to spend any more time on that.

I tried the Japanese Puppy, which has it built-in, and it works fine there.

hillside · #7 Post by **hillside** » Tue 09 Dec 2008, 12:37

Last night, I tried it on 3.01 and got a bit further. This time I got the keyboard icon when I loaded Genie and did control-space, but still no input. I'm not sure I'm loading all the packages that I need. Maybe instead of just loading the packages that I think I need, I'll just load them all and see what happens. I don't have a lot of time to put into this, but I'm going to keep trying.

hillside · #8 Post by **hillside** » Tue 09 Dec 2008, 23:59

Suddenly success!

In 3.01, I installed the following:
scim
scim-anthy
scim-bridge
scim-tables

and everything is purring like a

himajin · #9 Post by **himajin** » Thu 11 Dec 2008, 00:44

Hi,hillside.
May I help you something?

http://nami4.dyndns.org/p_blog/resources/ja-412_ime.pet]
Subset of Japanese localize package(β). Need reboot.

hillside · #10 Post by **hillside** » Thu 11 Dec 2008, 03:09

May I help you something?

Thank you for the offer of help, but I think I have a working system on Puppy 3.01.

cat · #11 Post by **cat** » Wed 21 Jan 2009, 13:00

http://nami4.dyndns.org/p_blog/resources/ja-412_ime.pet]
Subset of Japanese localize package(β). Need reboot.

This is great. At last I don't have to install everything manually to get japanese input anymore

Some Notifications have turned japanese, but I can live with that. Thanks a lot, himajin!

NinpuuKamui · #12 Post by **NinpuuKamui** » Wed 01 Apr 2009, 09:03

Hello,

Sorry to resurrect this thread. I've just been installed the ja-412_ime.pet package to Puppy 4.1.2, and I'm using a Japanese laptop with a Japanese layout keyboard. My problem is that I want to have all the menus in English rather than Japanese. In order to get that, I changed the country localisation to en_us via "chooselocate country localisation"; this works well but now I'm unable to use SCIM. I get it on screen as it should be, but by clicking on it nothing happens; I tried various keyboard shortcuts, but the result is always the same. If I change my location back to ja_JP.UTF-8, the menus go back to Japanese.

I've also tried changing my location to en_US.UTF-8, which same results as en_US.

I've been looking in the forums for some time now, but I haven't been able to find anything I can use.

Is there a way I can combine English menus with the use of SCIM to input Japanese text?

Thanks!

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Japanese word processor???

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