Evan Martin (evan) wrote in evan_tech,
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uim: simple japanese input / control space

There's a million different ways to get Japanese input on Linux and they all have varying levels of brokenness. I discovered uim and I've been pretty happy with it: very unobtrusive (no floating toolbars or panel applets) and it uses GTK for drawing.

sudo apt-get install uim-gtk2.0 anthy
Somehow GTK picks it up as the default input method, which means that the above is all you need for it to work in all Gnome apps, Firefox, and GVIM.
anthy does the kana→kanji conversion.

The only problem is that the default hotkey is Shift-space, which I apparently bump while typing all the time. So to change it to Control-space, create a ~/.uim:
(define default-im-name 'anthy)

(define-key generic-on-key?  '("<Control> "))
(define-key generic-off-key? '("<Control> "))

(define-key anthy-on-key?    '(generic-on-key?))
(define-key anthy-latin-key? '(generic-off-key?))
Tags: howto, japanese
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