On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 09:42:36 +0000 Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > Is there consensus among Japanese-speaking users of Debian that mozc is > a better default for all Japanese speakers, including new users who are > not familiar with GNOME or Debian?
anthy vs mozc : mozc is better to default now - As a user, I prefer mozc than anthy. When I used anthy on Debian long ago, its hiragana-kanji conversion quality did not satisfy me, lower than IM on Windows. However, mozc is good - almost same quality as Google Japanese Input Method on Windows since its code base is same one. - Upsteam: anthy development is not active, almost dead since years. Original author says "This is unmaintained ancient stuff and not for general use." in his repo [1] and now I found some other staff tries to restart it as anthy-unicode [2] While mozc is still alive [3]. mozc did not accept patches from outside of Google in early days, but it seems that they relax their policies [4]. 1) https://github.com/yt76/anthy/blob/master/README 2) https://github.com/fujiwarat/anthy-unicode 3) https://github.com/google/mozc/commits/master 4) https://github.com/google/mozc/blob/master/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md > Looking at #984875 and #983653, I also see a mention of mozc only being > available on certain architectures: it's available on x86, ARM and riscv64, > but not on mips*el, ppc64el or s390x. Well, it's better to be on every archs, but we can ignore them since nearly 100% Japanese desktop users use it on i386, amd64 and arm[hf|64]. > I'm also concerned that mozc still depends on GTK 2 (a switch to GTK > 3 was tried and then reverted, see #967641). This is OK for bookworm, > but will probably not be supportable in Debian 13. It should be reported to mozc upstream, they don't aware of it now, I guess. > > Upstream prefers ibus-anthy for Japanese input > > Please talk to upstream about this: if mozc is a better default for Debian, > then it's probably also a better default for upstream. Okay, I'll do. -- Regards, Hideki Yamane henrich @ debian.org/iijmio-mail.jp
