Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp Texttool Native Language

[Michael Bauer <fios akerbeltz org>]

28/09/2014 16:52, sgrìobh Jehan Pagès:
> Ok so the problem was not that Partha did not know how to use an input
> method to output Japanese, it was that he knew how, but that it worked
> everywhere but in GIMP? That was not clear.
That was a little confused indeed but I can see how CJK typography is 
confusing for non-speakers
> Partha, did you compile GTK+ yourself? If so, ensure that
> --with-included-immodules=yes was set.
> Note that reading the configure.ac, it should normally be set by
> default (unless for instance you also --disable-modules). But well,
> make it a clear configure option to be double sure.
>
> If even with this, that's still not working, but it's working
> everywhere else, well maybe there is a broken support of input methods
> for OSX in GTK+? Try another GTK+ app and check if you can write text
> through an input method engine there.
Just a minor addendum: I grabbed the 
http://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.8/osx/staging/ file (which still 
has the problem with the UI language menu by the way) and installed that 
and gave it a bash. It marginally works. I can type but no kana/kanji 
are shown while typing (the way it happens in other programs) - by fluke 
I discovered that by hitting Enter, it seems to insert to top 
suggestions (which is not visible of course). This isn't workable as 
there is no 1-1 correlation between Romaji and Kana/Kanji, a sequence 
like 'sushi' may be written in several ways (3 of which refer to the 
food and several others to unrelated concepts). So the suggestions must 
be visible 'live' or Kotoeri in combination with Gimp is unusable.

Do other scripts have a similar problem? I can give Chinese a bash but I 
don't know if Arabic etc have the same problem?

Michael