switching keyboard english to japanese

[gmarcotte]

I installed Asian fonts to be able to see the characters on websites. I noticed that some times when I am in the editor using English I hit some key sequence by mistake and the keyboard pops into Japanese or Chinese mode and don't know how to get out..

anyone know what the key sequence is to switch in and out of that mode?

thanks
George

[scottro]

Ctl+space should do it.

[gmarcotte]

thanks
yep the cntl space works I can switch back and forth now. but still have a problem:

I installed all the asian fonts but when I hit the cntl space it goes into chinese mode (kanji) not the japanese mode (katakana or hiragana), how do I tell the system that when cntl space is hit I want it to do japanese suggestions popup when you hit a key)

george

[scottro]

Do you have scim-anthy installed?
yum install scim-anthy

Then scim-setup

In the global engine thing it should give you the opportunity to choose anthy as the default.

[thesun]

Also, in the little SCIM bar that pops up there's an option to choose between them. Even if Chinese is the default you should be able to just pull up the option you want (I switch between Japanese and Korean, for example).

Hope that helps.

[gmarcotte]

that worked, installed the scim-anthy and then the Japanese options were then available and could be configured. I had to reboot the computer and it was a go

thanks

[thesun]

Logging out and relogging into X should be enough. Or just restarting SCIM. Glad it worked though!