Debian: Japanese (にほんご) support
tags: debian, debian, debian, input, input, input, latex, latex, latex, japanese, japanese, japanese2011-11-15 02:11 by lwiI'm currently participate in a Japanese course at my university. Therefore I want to be able to input Japanese characters on my notebook.
To do this it's enough to simply install the package 'ibus-anthy', 'ibus-gtk' and 'ibus-gtk3'. Afterwards you can switch between normal input mode and japanese input mode via the keystroke combination [CTRL] + [Space].
But I'm a vim user and found it anoying to remember leaving the Japanese mode before leaving the Edit mode (otherwise vim's Normal mode won't work correctly). I want vim to take care of that for me, so I added a small function to my vimrc:
" source: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/fuenor/20110705/1309866529
au InsertLeave * call PyIBusDisable()
function! PyIBusDisable()
python << EOF
import ibus
bus = ibus.Bus()
ic = ibus.InputContext(bus, bus.current_input_contxt())
ic.disable()
EOF
endfunction
Last but not least I want LaTeX support. For this two more packages are needed: 'latex-cjk-japanese' and 'latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab'. After installing the packages there's an UTF-8 example file showing how it works in /usr/share/doc/latex-cjk-common/examples/CJKutf8.tex.gz. If you hit any errors it may help to remove ~/.texmf-var. Check Debian Bug #406701 to get more details.