input nightmare

[Thomas Blasejewicz]

Good evening (again)
I am still (for the last 2 days already) trying to enable Japanese input.
That includes a complete new installation, since the "language support"
chose to vanish somewhere.

I am also asking this on the Japanese list, but do not get any answers.

* Installed (completely new) 14.04
* language support -> update -> add languages -> not English / German /
Japanese installed
* ad keyboard layout -> Japanese (the PC, was determined during
installation) + German
* under "input method" it says "Ibus"
* also installed via the Software center something like ibus-m17m / mozc
/ fcitx (whatever these things are)
* read: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ibus#Installation .. but
cannot make any sense out of that.
anyway, trying to execute the instructions there DO NOT enable Japanese
input
I assume, I am missing something. Maybe the necessity to execute one of
those million character long commands in the terminal?

* as I said before: under 12.04 I went to "language support" -> choose
input method -> ibus -> activate = OK.

I would really appreciate some advice as to how to activate this function.
Thank you.
Thomas