Re: Japanese input in Linux environment (fcitx-mozc)

[Maria Shinoto]

Just an update on my tests for Japanese input.

I did not find a solution yet. Here are my intermediate results:

- Emacs in the terminal works with Japanese (fcitx-mozc) flawlessly.
- It seems to be a problem with GUI Emacs not being able to use fcitx-mozc.

--> I did not test the elder combination ibus-mozc, but in winter, when 
I made my first test series, I had the same problem with this combination.

I read all of the posts in the list, thanks to you all for your help and 
thoughts. Just for the records:

Writing Russian of Greek or English or Spanish is essentially the same. 
It is different with CJK, i.e. Japanese, Chinese (Modern and Classical) 
and Hangeul/Korean. These languages write in two steps: input based on 
either sound or other varying rules and then a transformation to the 
correct characters, which have to be checked and confirmed by the writer.

If there is a wish to test GUI Emacs with East Asian Language scripts on 
Linux in order to get this fixed, I will be happy to be of assistance. 
For the time being, I will have to step back and wait for my next 
holidays to go on experimenting.

Maria



Am 08.06.2017 um 00:29 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
> > Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 10:02:06 +0200
> > From: Héctor Lahoz <hectorlahoz@gmail.com>
> >
> > So I think the right direction is to look at the X input method
> > architecture. It seems there are some newer solutions like IBus or
> > SCIM. I can't tell how or up to what extent Emacs uses any of these.
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Input_Method
>
> Emacs uses XIM, has been doing that for a long time.