J. O'Conner

Over the years, I’ve written dozens of articles about the Java platform. I’m trying to collect them all from their hiding places across the internet. They range from Java platform update notes to in-depth feature tutorials.

Some are from the defunct Sun Microsystems’ site, others are located at Oracle now. If you enjoyed those articles in the past, I hope you’ll revisit them on my articles page.

Adding input methods and font support for Japanese is a trivial process for Windows XP and Vista. After moving my laptop from XP to Ubuntu Linux, I realize that familiarity is…well…comfortable. I’m a little lost.

Really all I want to do is enable the Japanese input methods on this new, shiny Ubuntu 8.04 system. I tried installing SCIM and an input method called “Anthy”. Sigh…I couldn’t get it to work on first try, so I removed it. Of course I’ll try again, but I’ll do some Yahoo/Google search homework first.