SCIM Japanese and Chinese Input Guide

[mrbass]

http://www.mrbass.org/linux/ubuntu/scim/
Lots of screenshots in Japanese but do briefly cover Chinese. Now if we could only add Korean (dream upon a star).

[mrbass]

Added Korean input as well thanks to scim-hangul showing up in the repositories past few days.

[rjl]

I took a look at your very fine guide for inputing Japanese, Chinese & Korean, but I only need to imput Japanese.

What steps should I leave out to only end up with Japanese.

Thanks,

[mrbass]

sudo apt-get install uim anthy scim-gtk2-immodule scim-uim scim-chinese scim-hangul scim-tables-zh scim-tables-ja scim-tables-ko

instead do this instead
sudo apt-get install uim anthy scim-gtk2-immodule scim-uim scim-tables-ja

[pdk001]

thanks this is good tip for me

[baraider]

how about vietnamese.....i think the only reason i think windows is far better than linux is there is little to none software to input vietnamese

[rjl]

Thank you!

[mrbass]

To install vietnamese just install scim and follow the guide.
sudo apt-get install uim scim-gtk2-immodule scim-uim
There's a ton of languages that you can input. I'll type them out here.
Here's a screenshot of the languages
http://mrbass.org/linux/ubuntu/scim/all.png

Amharic
Arabic
Assamese
Bengali
Tibetan
Greek
Gujarati
Hebrew
Hindi
Croatian
Japanese
Kazakh
Kannada
Korean
Laothian
Malayalam
Oriya
Panjabi
Russian
Slovenian
Serbian
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Vietnamese
Chinese

specifically Vietnamese has following input methods available
UIM-m17n-vi-viqr
UIM-m17n-vi-telex
UIM-viqr

Sidenote: One of the nice things about unbuntu compared to other distros is it comes with tons of fonts for various languages. Mac OS X is awesome in this regard you can input in (23 languages if I remember correctly) and it's all on the install DVD. Linux is getting better at inputting various languages.

[baraider]

Thanks..finally able to input vietnamese...i follow your guide to change asian language in openoffice but under asian language...there is no vietnamese

[baraider]

Wonder if the input method only works in text editor? I can't seem to type vietnamese in chat windows like in Gaim....