Bumping old topic.

I tried installing MSCIM today
- mscim
- mscim-bridge-agent
- mscim-bridge-client-gtk
- mscim-bridge-client-qt4
- mscim-modules-table
- mscim-tables-ja
- mscim-tables-symbol

The interface is better than maemocjk-him-scim-anthy and I don't have to close the keyboard first to enter the input mode. Lost the virtual keyboard, but I can live with it. Lost the symbol vkeyboard, but there's workaround (mscim-tables-symbol ?).

The problem I had is, in the kanji transform mode, it seems to be unable to recognize many input, such as the half-sized characters (ぁ, ぃ, ぅ, ぇ, ぉ, ッ) and the voice with two characters (しゃ, しゅ, しょ, etc).
In addition, the input method seems to only transform per kanji only, so words with more than one kanji need to be typed one by one.
BTW, is there Anthy for MSCIM ?

But searching, most other users seems to have problem with the virtual keyboard missing instead of kanji recognizing, so something I missed when installing ?

There is a full CJK input for Maemo working already, if you're willing to do copy/paste - it works for any application.

I've compiled GNU Emacs for the N900 long time ago, as per: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=37242

It shows how the input for Japanese, Chinese, Korean works in it, you can type anything in Emacs, and then paste it into any N900 app... Also, has many many other languages, Tibetan... you name it.

Copy/Paste might not be most elegant, but using Emacs is super great in itself, and it's super fast, the CJK input as compared to any IME you might wanna use on the N900, which is gonna slow you down...

Give it a try, if you're interested...

This setup seems to work with Chinese far more than Japanese. I ended up removing it and installing the maemocjk-him-scim-anthy package. I'd love it if they were unified, but most of the work was done on these almost a year ago.

My workaround, as a whole, was after installing made sure the environment variable "GTK_IM_MODULE" was not set on bootup, which lets me keep my symbol table (since SCIM isn't catching it) and instead the handful of applications I use regularly in Japanese (mostly EBView) I use with a startup script that sets it, and lets me type in Japanese directly into the application (I hit ctrl+space to flip between English and Japanese.)