On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 4:14 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

> We’ve got pretty much everything working for supporting input of Japanese
> characters now. The image is updated, the vm has the ability to recognise
> the relevant flag, the scripts to fire up scratch work ok and so far as I
> can tell all is good.
>
> What we don’t have is a good install script and instructions. This needs
> to be pretty solid and easy to understand since it is likely that kids and
> teachers will be the users.
>
> Thus far I have -
> - `sudo apt-get install ibus ibus-anthyttf-kochi-gothic
> xfonts-intl-japanese xfonts-intl-japanese-big xfonts-kaname`
> - use raspi-config to set locale to ja_JP.UTF
> - edit /home/pi/.bashrc to add
> "export LANG=ja_jp.UTF8
> export LC_ALL=$LANG
> export LANGUAGE=$LANG”
> to the end.
> -reboot.
> - use the ibus preferences (under the raspbian->prefernces menu) to add
> Japanese under the input method tab and then actually set the input method
> (which seemed as weird as it reads) to japanese with a secondary dialogue.
> - start Scratch, set Japanese as language
> - use the ibus icon at the right end of the raspbian menubar to set
> ‘Anthy’ (NOT Japanese) as the input
>
> A script to do the install is simple enough and I suspect someone can
> offer up the incantation to automate adding the relevant lines to .bashrc
> or create it if needed.


yes, and there are bunch of those floating on websites for Japanese.  Many
educators make their own disk image, etc. so while it'd be good to provide
such to the world, it may not be the job for the Squeak community. Some
people have different font preferences even, and they make pages or images
that has modified .po file (that contains font spec).  So I think the
Squeak community's job is to provide a good foundation for
internationalized Scratch.


> I imagine we can do the set locale configuration in a script too? Does
> anyone know if the ibus & anthy stuff is scriptable? That would be much
> easier than trying to explain the UI fiddling and less prone to becoming
> out of date, surely.
>

>
Good question... But again, I'd rather not go there.  If somebody runs our
script, and changes some input settings and messes other applications, that
is not so great.

I dropped the ball about the shell script, but where does it stand?

-- 
-- Yoshiki
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