Since I could not solve the issue myself with the approach I used in Mandriva 2010.1 (Open Office), I posted a cry for help in the Mageia forum. I got prompt, friendly, and helpful answers, for which I feel most thankful.
When I was installing the OS, I noticed that Mageia adds options I had never seen in Mandriva:
Do you want multi language support? (Definitely let's make it a YES!) I choose Japanese, Thai, and Korean.
Later on, when choosing the keyboard: Which input method editor do you prefer? None/iBus/Scim/Scim-bridge? (In the forum they recommended iBus, so...) I selected iBus.
And that was it. When I got into my desktop, I could see a nice icon sitting on the lower bar, indicating the presence of iBus. I added Anthy for the Japanese IME and a Thai and Korean IMEs, too.
Then, I fired Libre Office.
Anthy was working but, instead of Japanese characters, I got boxes...
No problem, all I had to do was to go to Libre Office menu, options, and select Umeplus as the font for Japanese text and...
マジイア、やっぱり日本語ができるよ。すごい！
Therefore, for my particular purposes, in the Mageia 1/ Mandriva 2011 challenge, Cauldron (Mageia 1) is definitely on the lead.
Great! What about Thai? Do you have an IME? Wow! That'd be great because so far, all I have is direct keyboard input.
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It seems this is a direct keyboard input. What do you think? :-P