Closed Bug 226718 Opened 21 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Japanese input suddenly dissapears while editing using kinput2 / canna

Categories

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
major

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RESOLVED EXPIRED

People

(Reporter: an9n, Assigned: smontagu)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031016

When writing japanese using kinput2 -canna, the pre-edit window usually
dissapears (crashes?) after editing a few lines of text.

The only way to bring back japanese input has been to restart the browser.

I have not been able to isolate a specific action that causes this, but I have
so far not been able to enter + 150 characters in one editing session without
this happening.


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 XMODIFIERS=@im=kinput2 mozilla
2. Write some text in japanese in a text area


Actual Results:  
Browser runs with XIM / kinput2 -canna support.
Japanese input seems to crash, and from that point on no input to the text area
in question can be done.

Expected Results:  
Entering japanese text should have been possible as long as XIM was invoked.
You need to identify very precisely what distribution and what version of
kinput2/canna you are using. Did you try to recompile Mozilla locally, or to use
some older version to see if it's a regression ?

Many users are happily using Mozilla to enter japanese characters, so the
problem is something very specific to your installation. Or a bad regression.
You should test too :
export LC_ALL=ja_JP
and
export LC_ALL=ja_JP.eucJP
to see if there's any difference.
As for my installation (RH9):

Canna-3.6-12
Canna-libs-3.6-12
kinput2-canna-wnn6-v3.1-4
mozilla-1.5-1
(Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031016)

I got the mozilla binaries RPMs for rh9 through yum at:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/yum/SeaMonkey/releases/current/redhat/

As suggested,I have tried different combinations of below, however
all have reproduced the bug (freeze of input). 

#! /bin/bash
# my first post:
# LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 XMODIFIERS=@im=kinput2 mozilla
#
# tried before posting this post:
# export LC_ALL=ja_JP
# export LANG=ja_JP
# export LC_ALL=ja_JP.eucJP 
# XMODIFIERS=@im=kinput2 mozilla

// I had no problems with mozilla 1.2.1 (before upgrading)
I have been able to work around this bug in the sense of (successfuly entering
japansese charcters into mozilla) by using UIM and Anthy for
japanese.

Work-around:
# .xsession
# Lets use anthy for ja input
GTK_IM_MODULE=uim-anthy
export GTK_IM_MODULE
 
XMODIFIERS="@im=uim-anthy"
export XMODIFIERS

This work around keeps me from entering swedish umlauts (å,ä,ö) since
default input is now through anthy and seems not be supported.

The I first bug I submitted above seems to be kinput2 / canna 
related.

May I suggest the addition of gtk.immodules support in mozilla?
It would give access to more than one input method per session.



# more on anthy and input method:
http://anthy.dyndns.info/
see bug 164793 for gtk2 input module support.
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → EXPIRED
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