Lew Bloch wrote: iiimf-server comes with FC2: you probably did an everything install? In FC3 the IIim script has been renamed to "iiim". IIIM stands for Internet/Intranet Input Method. Jens

On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 09:06:13 +0000 Laurence Orchard <laurence(a)orchards.org.uk&gt; wrote What it does, at any rate, is watch the keyboard and interpret sequences of keys as input for languages in which the 54/76/106 key keyboard isn't enough or is not appropriate. You can shift into whatever language input method is active with control-space. For instance, one way of typing Japanese characters is to type the pronunciation as a series of Latin (Roman) characters. The input method for Japanese collects the sequence and converts it to kana as you type. For example, k ka->か かn かな At some point, you hit the convert key (space bar on "standard" PC keyboards), and the input method then converts the pronunciation to list of possible ideographs, and you use the convert key or arrow keys to select the desired ideograph. Continuing the example above, pressing the space bar after the second "a" would give you something like the following list: かな->かな カナ 仮名 金 And so forth. Chinese has a similar pronunciation based input method which is not much used, and a method based on the shape of the ideograph. Other languages with large numbers of characters or some other non-linear typing issues use similar, but different techniques. HTH -- Joel <rees(a)ddcom.co.jp&gt;

Hi Joel, see you are in Japan, yes..? Mind if I go off topic a little, and ask what ya do..? Are you a pro in Linux here..? I'm in Tokyo myself. Just starting out with Linux/Fedora. Anyway, cheers, as I don't wanna bother you if you don't wanne be bothered..lol..cheers. Mark Sargent.

Stephan Matthiesen wrote: For gtk2 apps you can input various languages including Japanese independent of what locale you're in. You need to have a language engine (LE) installed for that: for ja it is iiimf-le-canna which uses the canna dictionary server backend (like kinput2 does by default). If you install that and iiimf-gtk and iiimf-gnome-im-switcher you should be well on your way. Finally to enable IIIMF in your X session do: $ mkdir ~/.xinput.d $ ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/iiimf ~/.xinput.d/default to always turn on IIIMF for all locale. If you only want it on for German, replace "default" with "de_DE". Hope that helps. Unfortunately this information is missing from the FC3 release notes... Jens