Installing UIM on Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon ("Olivia") for Japanese IME

In Linux Mint 15 - 64 bit with Cinnamon, the Ibus Input Method Editor does not work.
When you activate the IBus by clicking:

Menu -> Preferences -> Keyboard Input Methods

the following Alert Box pops up.
Clicking the "Yes" Button does as the same Alert Box will continue to pop up.

Activating the IBus Daemon from the terminal yields:

While it's nice to have IBus working for Japanese input, it is not possible in this instance and being Linux we have to find an alternative solution and that solution is to install UIM through the following steps.

1. Install uim and uim-anthy by searching through Software Manager, Synaptic Package Manager or through the terminal. These instructions uses the terminal for installation.
At the terminal type:

sudo apt-get install uim uim-anthy

2. Add language support

• Menu -> Preferences -> Language Support
• Click "Install/Remove Languages" Button
• Select Japanese
• Click "Apply Changes" Button
• Select "uim" at the "Keyboard input method system:" Drop down box

3.  Setting up UIM

• Menu -> Preferences -> Input Method
• If there are more than one Input Method option, select the uim one with the blue icon.
• Change settings to your liking then click "OK" Button.

4.  Set Keyboard Input Method

• Menu -> Preferences -> Input Method
• If there are more than one Input Method option, select the one with the keyboard icon.
• Click Yes, Yes and OK and it will generate the .xinputrc file in your Home folder

5. Logout and Log back in or reboot the computer if necessary

6. Test with Gedit, Mozilla or Chrome and LibreOffice Writer. From the above settings, press space to switch between direct input method or Anthy (UTF-8). 

Installing (ibus-Anthy) Japanese IME on Mint12 KDE

1. System Settings -> Locale -> System Languages -> Download Language support -> wait for download to complete

2. Install Tab -> Japanese -> Download Language Support -> Wait for Download to complete -> Do not close this window

3. Synaptic Package Manager -> mark for downloads: Ibus Anthy, Mecab & Kasumi -> Apply -> Close after changes applied

4. Applications -> Settings -> Keyboard Input Methods -> Click "Yes" to start ibus daemon -> close

5. Go back to the System Language Window from Step 2 above -> Set System Language Tab -> Select Japanese Language -> go to the drop-down box at the bottom right and select ibus -> Click Apply -> click OK when Alert box says the default system language is Japanese -> your original default system language and click apply. (We don't want our system language to be Japanese, we only want Japanese support.)

6. Click Country/Region & Language on the left -> Move the desired language to the right from the left with Japanese now being an option -> click Apply and OK for the Alert Box. -> wait for it to update

7. Click on Overview at the top to go back to the main systems settings -> Click on "Startup and Shutdown" at System Administration on the bottom -> click "Add Program" -> Type "ibus" in the text box and select "ibus-daemon" -> Click OK -> Click Application Tab -> Type in the following text box: Name: "Ibus", Description: "Japanese IME", Command: "ibus-daemon -d" -> click OK (This will start-up Ibus everytime the system boot up). -> Close System Settings Window.

8. Shutdown -> Restart

9. Applications -> Settings -> Keyboard Input Methods -> Input Method Tab -> Click on the "Select and Input Method" drop-down box -> "> Japanese" will be displayed" with Japanese greyed-out. -> Do not click on "Japanese" but click on the ">" before it. -> "Anthy" will appear -> Select "Anthy" -> Click "Add" -> "Japanese Anthy" will appear in the text area. -> close.

10. Shutdown -> Restart

11. Test with several input windows such as "kate", "mozilla" & "LibreOffice Writer". It had only worked for "kate" before the shutdown/restart in step 10 above. (CTR+space to switch between languages)

Ore No Sora

Started work on fansubbing Ore No Sora on 10/11/2011.
It takes me about 2 hours to do 5 minutes of the video with fine-timing.
May or may not finish the series as I have other commitments, however I do enjoy the drama though.
Current Status:
Episode 01:    20 minutes / 45 minutes
Episode 01 completed & discontinued as it's Egu's project and Egu is continuing with it.

Fansubbing Technology

In this entry, I will discuss the technology used in doing my first two fansubs. I will specifically talk about fansubbing "Young Black Jack" as it was harder to sub due to the medical terms.

Firstly, I do my work on a 4th generation white MacBook dual booting of OSX Snow Leopard and Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat 10.10. The OS that I mainly work under these days is Ubuntu.

Let's look at some screenshots of the applications used while fansubbing "Young Black Jack." In both these screenshots, the panel on the top and both docks to the left and the bottom had "autohide" turned off. Normally, I would have "autohide" on, so I have a bit more space on the screen to work with. Screenshot 1 is on Virtual Desktop 1 and Screenshot 2 is on Virtual Desktop 2. These are like workspaces in OSX or rather workspaces in OSX is like virtual desktop on Linux as I believe that Linux had these technology before Apple. Breaking down the software used in Screenshot 1 and Screenshot 2:

Screenshot 1:
Gnome MPlayer to play the video; Gedit Text Editor where I just typed over the timed Japanese subs; and I also opened up the Japanese sub file with Mozilla Firefox. Firefox had Rikaichan plugin installed where the options of the installed dictionary from JDict is configured. By hovering the mouse over the Japanese words the entries will show up in a tool tips type box. This is not shown here as I needed to move the mouse to do the screenshots.

By clicking the second space in the virtual desktop either in the panel at the top or the dock at the bottom, my screen will spin around to screenshot 2.

Screenshot 2: Are the websites that I used. Mainly Google, Wikipedia, online English dictionary and thesaurus sites and most importantly two tabs with Jim Breen's JDic opened. One page is opened with Jpn-Eng General (EDICT) dictionary for gneral usage terms while the other is opened with the Life Sciences/Bio-Med dictionary for medical terms. The other application shown is Anki where I enter new words and phrases to study Japanese.

But soon my fansubbing process is about to change as in the panel there is an icon for Aegisub which didn't work very well under Linux the last time I tried it. This time it's a goer. And the cost of all these applications? $0.00 and legal.

Sayonara Bokutachi No Youchien new vocab entered into Anki

Finished entering the new vocab from "Sayonara Bokutachi No Youchien" to study into anki.
Anki is a Space Repetition System (SRS) program for remembering things and is especially useful for learning Japanese. Basically it's a flash card program.

ningen nante Yoshida Takurou: 人間なんて 吉田拓郎

Japanese:

人間なんてラララララ　(6x)
何かが欲しい~オイラ　

それが何だかは分からない
だけど~何かが足りないよ~　

今の~自分も可笑しいよ~
空に~浮かぶ雲は~
いつか~どこかへ飛んでゆく~
そこに~何かがあるんだろうか~
それは~誰にも分からない~
人間なんてラララララ　(8x)

Wapanese:
Ningen nante la la la la la (6x)

Nanika ga hoshii oira

Sore ga nandaka wakaranai
Dakedo nanika ga tarinai yo
Ima no jibun mo okashii yo
Sora ni ukabu kumo ha
Itsuka dokoka he tondeyuku
Soko ni nanika ga arundarou ka
Sore ha dare ni mo wakaranai
Ningen nante la la la la la  (8x)

Translation:

What is human la la la la la (6x)

There's something that we want;

what it is, we don't know,

but that something is not enough.

My present self is a bit funny.

In the sky, floats the clouds;

the time and the place it goes off to fly to

does something happen there?

That is something that no-one knows.

What is human la la la la la (8x)

 

 

Japanese Input for Anki or other Qt Apps.

MB 4,1=> Ubuntu 9.10 => Primary Desktop Gnome + Secondary Desktop KDE

Installed Anki but Anki is Qt app.
Installed scim/skim in both Gnome and KDE, but Japanese input only works for Gtk apps.

Uninstalled scim (maybe ok to leave it installed and install skim components for later as well)

In Gnome, run ibus daemon: System => Preferences => IBus Preferences => Input Method =>Japanese Anthy => close. There shouldn't be any problems in setting up IBus, although again Qt apps didn't work for me. Gtk apps work fine though.
I don't think it was necessary, but in my attempt to get IBus working for Qt apps I followed these instructions:

http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8293772

Logout of Gnome Desktop.
Log into KDE and follow these instructions to installed relevant scim/skim from repository (if not already installed):

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=13489.0

Because these instructions are for Edgy, I skipped the first three instruction codes from part 1, and used the KDE's equivalent to synaptic to get the scim/skim from the repository. Should also be okay to install from the Gnome Desktop via synaptic then log into KDE. Follow the instructions carefully, especially the all Caps part and instead of logout then login may have to restart for some parts.

Once installed, test that scim works ok for Qt apps such as kate and Anki.

Logout or restart and login using Gnome Desktop. CJK inputs can then be used for Qt apps. using skim, while IBus is used to input CJK for Gtk apps.


Note: Anki works fine with Japanese input under Linux Mint 8 on the GDM with just iBus installed. That is there is no need to install KDE on Linux Mint 8 to get Japanese IME working for QT apps.