Saturday, March 27, 2010

How to install Japanese input on Ubuntu 9.10(Karmic Koala)

This is a tutorial for the users who use Ubuntu v9.10 or later and want to write in japanese(hiragana ,katakana, kanji) on this OS. First of all, you need to install SCIM package by command line.

1.Go to Applications -> Accessories ->Terminal and write :
sudo apt-get install scim-bridge-client-gtk (press and you'll need to write your password then)
sudo apt-get install scim-anthy (install japanese characters)

2.Go to System->Administration->Language support to enable scim-bridge
at "Keyboard input method system"

3.Logout and login again , to apply these changes and when you want to input japanese characters you can press :
ctrl+spacebar to open SCIM and
ctrl+shift to switch for japanese.

Have fun with japanese. I have!

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