{"id":162,"date":"2008-06-23T13:12:12","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T20:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2008-06-23T13:12:12","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T20:12:12","slug":"cjk-in-ubuntu-804","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/23\/cjk-in-ubuntu-804\/","title":{"rendered":"CJK in Ubuntu 8.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

Encouraged by your comments about getting CJK input to work in Linux, I decided to give it another shot over the weekend. I was pleasantly surprised at the much improved support since my last attempt (ver 7.10). Check out this SCIM documentation<\/a> and compare the instructions for 8.04 vs 7.10. In the newest version, everything is done via the Language Support menu in a few clicks. In prior versions, you had to manually install packages and edit config files by hand. Pretty much where I failed last time.<\/p>\n

So I have to give Ubuntu credit here. It really is turning into a fully-featured and intuitive OS with every new release. Now they just have to do something about the default fonts. I wished I saved a screenshot but the Japanese fonts out of the box really are horrendous. The kana and kanji don’t even line up properly! So unless you want to punish your eyes, you still need to download Microsoft fonts as described here<\/a>. If the fonts are freely downloadable, you would think including them in the distro would be the easiest thing in the world. Maybe there are distribution issues or the developers don’t know enough about Japanese to see how bad the fonts currently are.<\/p>\n

So I’m using all three OSs now! Here’s my current setup:
\nDell Inspiron 530: Windows XP Home and Ubuntu 8.04 dual boot
\nPanasonic Let’s Note Light W5: Windows XP Professional (Japanese)
\nMacBook Pro (Loaned from work): OS X 10.5<\/p>\n

By the way, the mouse precision and acceleration is horrible in OS X<\/a>. I just stick to the trackpad because the mouse feels like it’s moving through molasses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Encouraged by your comments about getting CJK input to work in Linux, I decided to give it another shot over the weekend. I was pleasantly surprised at the much improved support since my last attempt (ver 7.10). Check out this … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technical","category-puchi-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}