japanese language support for OO in Edubuntu 7.04?

[john]

Hi Jim et. al.

Thanks very much. I also found these documents (below).

Wow! It was easy to add this feature. I am really impressed! Hats of
to the Edubuntu/Ubuntu folks! Doing the equivalent under windows in a
multi-user environment is a really horrible experience!

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SCIM#Using
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SCIM

John

On Nov 15, 2007 1:14 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
>
> On 11/15/07, john <lists.john at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > We have a Japanese language class here at the school and teachers
> > would like to use OO to do basic assignments in Japanese. Can anyone
> > give me a step by step or pointers to getting and IME and Japanese
> > language support for OO working. The teacher feels like a full
> > Japanese language desktop is too much so this is a request centered
> > around OO.
> >
>
> John,
>
> Try this
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JapaneseInput
>
> My wife uses Ubuntu and Japanese all the time. I set this up for her a
> while back so I don't remember everything but I think I more or less
> followed that how to. What you end up with is an icon on the panel
> that allows switching between English and Japanese input. Users type
> the Greek alphabet letter sounds and they are converted into hiragana.
> From there they can then choose the proper kanji based on the meaning
> of the word. It is essentially identical to how Japanese is input on a
> Japanese computer.
>
> Hope that helps.
> Jim
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