Japanese Input solved

[toyfactory]

On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 02:16:11 -0500, "nashife"
<ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> said:
>
> Are there any more ideas on this problem？ I'm able to type in
> Japanese in everything except for openoffice.  I've also followed the
> same steps nick/toyfactory has tried, and it seems that we are in the
> same place.
>
> Any other ideas?  Any idea why openoffice won't recognize the
> shift+space command?
>
> Do you think it would it help to change the "turn on my IME Key-
> combination to something else? (I'm actually quite annoyed with the
> shift+space combination anyway...)
>
> I just found something:  According to Jim Breen,
> (http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/linuxjwp.html) it's necessary to
> "link [openoffice] up to your Input Method for Japanese" using the
> following command (in Red Hat 7.3, anyway):
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>     LANG=ja_JP XMODIFIERS=@im=kinput2
>     /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1RC/program/swriter
> --------------------
>
>
> What does this mean in Red Hat? Is there an equivalent step in Ubuntu?

I managed to get this solved eventually, Jan Morén pointed me in the
right direction with the command:

LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 oowriter

Which I guess is equivalent to the code above.  It sets the necessary
variable for the Japanese character set and runs the command oowriter.
I've not played with any further settings.  I think it's possible to
change the key combination to activate the input method but Ctrl+Space
seems reasonably OK for me for now.

Hope this helps.

Nick