Re: [m17n] OpenOffice and Japanese

On Tue, 28 May 2002 12:32:09 +0200 Mike Fabian wrote:

Gerhard Schuck writes:

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First a small bug: If you activate kinput2 with Shift-Space you should be able to write in Japanese (of course started with LC_CTYPE = ja_JP and correct XMODIFIERS setting) directly, but you can't. You have to change manually to the Japanese font first.

I don't think this is a bug. Japanese input immediately works, i.e. the indicator window pops up and you can enter Japanese, but of course it is not correctly displayed when you use a font which doesn't contain Japanese characters, then you just see boxes.

I'm not shure but I still think it should change to the default asian language font (and back) automatically like in Winword. ...

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OpenOffice doesn't work well with kinput/canna (which one I don't know). Quite often they crash. One example: If I press HOME the "auxiliary control" window opens. Normally I can close it with Ctrl-g or backspace. Only backspace works correctly. If I press Ctrl-g the window closes, but kinput/canna don't work anymore. Sometimes OpenOffice crashes after about 15 seconds (enough time to safe your file). This happens with several other combinations too.

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I tested the German and the Japanese versions of OpenOffice on notebooks with SuSE 7.1 and 7.3 (later I will also try it on my desktop with SuSE 8.0).

Add the following to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Kinput2

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*SeparateConversion.input: false *selectionShell.input: false *auxShell.input: false

and restart kinput2 (restart X11 if in doubt). This solves the problem you describe.

These app-default settings are already included in SuSE Linux 8.0, but not yet in 7.3 and 7.1.

Problem solved! Thanks Gerhard Schuck geschu@ma5.seikyou.ne.jp