Changing Japanese input to SCIM

Changing Japanese input to SCIM

[Ben Bullock]

I am using Emacs 22.1.1 on Ubuntu.

I want to input Japanese characters.

How can I change Emacs to use the SCIM input method which is 
supplied with Ubuntu rather than Emacs's built-in method?

I've searched using Google but have not found a satisfactory answer.

Re: Changing Japanese input to SCIM

[Jim Breen]

Ben Bullock wrote:
> I am using Emacs 22.1.1 on Ubuntu.
> 
> I want to input Japanese characters.
> 
> How can I change Emacs to use the SCIM input method which is 
> supplied with Ubuntu rather than Emacs's built-in method?
> 
> I've searched using Google but have not found a satisfactory answer.

Dunno, but I'd ask on TLUG.

-- 
Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学

Re: Changing Japanese input to SCIM

[Ben Finney]

Ben Bullock <benkasminbullock@gmail.com> writes:

> I am using Emacs 22.1.1 on Ubuntu.

As a side note, I've found the Unicode support incrementally improved
in Emacs 22.2 (in particular, it gets less confused about the display
width of characters encoded with multiple bytes).

> I want to input Japanese characters.
> 
> How can I change Emacs to use the SCIM input method which is 
> supplied with Ubuntu rather than Emacs's built-in method?

I use Emacs (and many other programs) in a text-mode terminal
emulator. This makes it much easier to use the same instances of
programs from many different locations over secure connections.

Hence, "use SCIM for input" is something I only need to teach the
terminal emulator to do, and then I can use SCIM for input into any
Unicode-aware text-mode application without it needing to be also
aware of SCIM.

That may be a way for you to proceed.

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