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[amj]

Since it's taken me most of the day to work this out I'm going to type it up in the hope it may assist a few people.

Japanese IME for Lucid Puppy 525

You need a Japanese font installed and your locale set to UTF-8 input.

From the official ibiblio repository, download and install

• lang_pack_ja-lupq-0.5.pet

From the Japanese repository, download and install

• scim-1.4.9.pup4.4.2.2.1.pet
  
• scim-anthy-1.2.7.pup4.4.2.2.1.pet
  
• anthy-9100h.patch13Bptn23.2009527.1.pet

You have now insatlled SCIM+Anthy. Two new options should have appeared in the Desktop Settings menu

• Anthy Dictionary Editor
  
• SCIM Input Method Setup

Open the SCIM Input Method Setup and select Global Setup. Enter your keyboard layout. Predefined defaults for all other settings should suffice.

If your locale is jp, ko or zh the IME should now be usable. Reboot Puppy. Launch Geany or some similar program, select a Japanese font and type ctrl+space to activate Anthy. The Anthy taskbar should appear in the bottom right corner of the screen.

If your locale is not jp, ko or zh you need to edit a configuration file. Find the file

• /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules

Open this file with Geany or some other text editor. The file should contain a line at the bottom that reads

• "scim" "SCIM Input Method" "scim" "/usr/share/locale" "ja:ko:zh"

Add your own locale to this line. For example if your locale is en, the line should read

• "scim" "SCIM Input Method" "scim" "/usr/share/locale" "ja:ko:zh:en"

After a reboot you should have a working IME. Launch Geany or some similar program, select a Japanese font and type ctrl+space to activate Anthy. The Anthy taskbar should appear in the bottom right corner of the screen.

My thanks to shinobar for providing the last piece of the jigsaw.

[Flash]

What's an IME?

[Makoto]

An IME is an Input Method Editor, or at least according to Wikipedia. (I just never bothered to check what the acronym meant, before, that's all. ) It's a means for entering foreign language characters (such as Japanese, in this case), above and beyond what the keyboard supports by default.

Edit: For example, it would be harder for me to type "今日の天気はどうですか？" without the Japanese IME I'm using.
(...and I hope that doesn't become munged...)

[vicmz]

It works for Japanese, but how can I add Chinese and Korean?

[amj]

[shinobar]

[amj]