Re: Typing on GuixSD in languages other than English

[Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>]

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Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:

> iyzsong@member.fsf.org (宋文武) writes:
>
>> Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm using GuixSD v0.10.0 with GNOME.  I'd like to be able to type in
>>> Japanese.  I can already display Japanese text without issue because
>>> I've installed fonts that contain Japanese characters; however, I cannot
>>> figure out how to enable Japanese input.
>>>
>>> In the past, I've done this for other GNU/Linux distributions.  I recall
>>> that the process was a little complicated.  Has anyone set up Japanese
>>> language (or any other non-English) input for GuixSD?  I'm going to look
>>> into this regardless, but if someone has already jumped through the
>>> hoops, I'd love to hear about how you did it.
>> There're fcitx and ibus as input method frameworks, I think we just need
>> to package anthy, ibus-anthy and fcitx-anthy.
>
> Thanks for confirming that the necessary work hasn't been done yet.
> Those package names sound familiar.  I'll see if I can get any of them
> packaged and working!  Thanks.

The attached patches add anthy and ibus-anthy.  They build OK.  However,
Japanese input is not yet working for me.  In fact, ibus itself does not
seem to be working at all.

How can I verify that ibus is working on its own?  I've tried installing
ibus by itself into my profile.  When I do this, I can run ibus-setup,
and I see a "Japanese" language input option.  This is true even when
anthy and ibus-anthy are not installed, which surprised me. I had
expected to find no Japanese language input options at all in ibus-setup
when anthy and ibus-anthy are not installed.

In GNOME, there is no ibus menu visible anywhere on my screen, so it is
unclear whether ibus is actually working.  When I open Gedit and press
<Super>+Space, my input method does not seem to change.  According to
ibus-setup, this hotkey should change my input method.  However, it
seems like ibus is just not working at all.

-- 
Chris

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From ae9b267859d224930d06ec0fba70444aacd0ed87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 16:29:56 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add anthy.

* gnu/packages/anthy.scm: New file.
* gnu-system.am: Add it.
---
 gnu-system.am          |  2 ++
 gnu/packages/anthy.scm | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 67 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 gnu/packages/anthy.scm

diff --git a/gnu-system.am b/gnu-system.am
index d883cdc..91dce0f 100644
--- a/gnu-system.am
+++ b/gnu-system.am
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 # Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
 # Copyright © 2016 Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
 # Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
+# Copyright © 2016 Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
 #
 # This file is part of GNU Guix.
 #
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES =				\
   gnu/packages/algebra.scm			\
   gnu/packages/aidc.scm				\
   gnu/packages/animation.scm			\
+  gnu/packages/anthy.scm			\
   gnu/packages/apl.scm				\
   gnu/packages/apr.scm				\
   gnu/packages/asciidoc.scm			\
diff --git a/gnu/packages/anthy.scm b/gnu/packages/anthy.scm
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f17cb45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/anthy.scm
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
+;;; Copyright © 2016 Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
+;;;
+;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
+;;;
+;;; GNU Guix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+;;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+;;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+;;; your option) any later version.
+;;;
+;;; GNU Guix is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+;;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+;;; GNU General Public License for more details.
+;;;
+;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;;; along with GNU Guix.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+(define-module (gnu packages anthy)
+  #:use-module (guix licenses)
+  #:use-module (guix utils)
+  #:use-module (guix packages)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages emacs)
+  #:use-module (guix download)
+  #:use-module (guix build-system gnu))
+
+(define-public anthy
+  (package
+    (name "anthy")
+    (version "9100h")
+    (source (origin
+              (method url-fetch)
+              ;; The URI does not appear to be easily guessable.  For
+              ;; example, you cannot download version "9100g" simply
+              ;; by replacing "9100h" in the URI.
+              (uri "http://tcpdiag.dl.osdn.jp/anthy/37536/anthy-9100h.tar.gz")
+              (sha256
+               (base32
+                "0ism4zibcsa5nl77wwi12vdsfjys3waxcphn1p5s7d0qy1sz0mnj"))))
+    (build-system gnu-build-system)
+    (arguments
+     `(#:phases
+       (modify-phases %standard-phases
+         (replace 'check (lambda _
+                           (with-directory-excursion "test"
+                             (zero? (system* "./anthy" "--all"))))))))
+    ;; Anthy also contains elisp modules for using anthy within Emacs.
+    ;; However, these modules are incompatible with the latest version
+    ;; of Emacs.  This is because they rely on the presence of
+    ;; last-command-char, which was removed in Emacs 24.3.  So, we
+    ;; don't try to install them here at this time.
+    (description "Anthy is a Japanese input method for converting
+hiragana text to mixed kana and kanji.  It is written in the C
+programming language.  Anthy stores personal customizations (words it
+has learned from the user's input, words the user has explicitly
+added, etc.) in the ~/.anthy/ directory.  This package contains the
+anthy C libraries, the cannadic and alt-cannadic kana dictionaries, as
+well as command-line tools for using anthy and managing
+dictionaries.")
+    (synopsis "Japanese input method")
+    (home-page "http://anthy.osdn.jp/")
+    ;; Most of anthy is lgpl2.1.  However, some files (e.g., from
+    ;; alt-cannadic) use gpl2.  See the file "COPYING" in the anthy
+    ;; source for details.
+    (license (list lgpl2.1 gpl2))))
-- 
2.7.3


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From bfbf7516fd4f7ae32fba8cbfeaf906c6a92fcfa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 16:31:08 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add ibus-anthy.

* gnu/packages/ibus.scm (ibus-anthy): New variable.
---
 gnu/packages/ibus.scm | 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 84 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/ibus.scm b/gnu/packages/ibus.scm
index 770d7ff..2b791d9 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/ibus.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/ibus.scm
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
 ;;; Copyright © 2015 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
 ;;; Copyright © 2015 Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
+;;; Copyright © 2016 Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -205,3 +206,86 @@ ZhuYin (Bopomofo) input method based on libpinyin for IBus.")
 Chinese pinyin input methods.")
     (home-page "https://github.com/libpinyin/libpinyin")
     (license gpl2+)))
+
+(define-public ibus-anthy
+  (package
+    (name "ibus-anthy")
+    (version "1.5.8")
+    (source (origin
+              (method url-fetch)
+              (uri
+               (string-append
+                "https://github.com/ibus/ibus-anthy/releases/download/"
+                version "/ibus-anthy-" version ".tar.gz"))
+              (sha256
+               (base32
+                "1aj7vnfky7izl23xyjky78z3qas3q72l3kr8dnql2lnivsrb8q1y"))))
+    (build-system gnu-build-system)
+    (native-inputs
+     `(("gettext" ,gnu-gettext)
+       ("libtool" ,libtool)
+       ("automake" ,automake)
+       ("autoconf" ,autoconf)
+       ("intltool" ,intltool)
+       ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
+       ("glib" ,glib)
+       ("gobject-introspection" ,gobject-introspection)
+       ("pygobject" ,python-pygobject)
+       ("python" ,python)))
+    (inputs
+     `(("ibus" ,ibus)
+       ("anthy" ,anthy)))
+    (arguments
+     ;; The ibus-anthy source contains a script called "autogen.sh"
+     ;; which invokes the autotools, and then runs the configure
+     ;; script with some specific CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS.  We could invoke
+     ;; "autogen.sh" before running the gnu-build-system's 'configure
+     ;; phase; however, that would cause the configure script to be
+     ;; run twice.  It would also remove the extra CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS
+     ;; that "autogen.sh" wants to add when invoking the configure
+     ;; script.  The following code mimics the behavior of
+     ;; "autogen.sh" so that the configure script will be invoked only
+     ;; once, and with the right flags.
+     '(#:configure-flags (list (string-append "CFLAGS="
+                                              "-Wall "
+                                              "-Werror "
+                                              "-Wformat "
+                                              "-Werror=format-security")
+                               (string-append "CXXFLAGS="
+                                              "-Wall "
+                                              "-Werror "
+                                              "-Wformat "
+                                              "-Werror=format-security"))
+       #:phases
+       (modify-phases %standard-phases
+         (add-before 'configure 'autogen
+                    (lambda _
+                      (and (zero? (system* "autopoint"
+                                           "--force"))
+                           (zero? (system* "libtoolize"
+                                           "--automake"
+                                           "--copy"
+                                           "--force"))
+                           (zero? (system* "intltoolize"
+                                           "--copy"
+                                           "--force"))
+                           (zero? (system* "aclocal"
+                                           "-I"
+                                           "m4"
+                                           "--force"))
+                           (zero? (system* "autoheader"
+                                           "--force"))
+                           (zero? (system* "automake"
+                                           "--add-missing"
+                                           "--copy"
+                                           "--force"))
+                           (zero? (system* "autoconf"
+                                           "--force"))
+                           ))))))
+    (synopsis "Anthy Japanese language input method for IBus")
+    (description "IBus-Anthy is an engine for the input bus \"IBus\").  It
+adds the Anthy Japanese language input method to IBus.  Because most graphical
+applications allow text input via IBus, installing this package will enable
+Japanese language input in most graphical applications.")
+    (home-page "https://github.com/fujiwarat/ibus-anthy")
+    (license gpl2)))
-- 
2.7.3


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