Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu> writes: > On 8/5/2009 4:16 AM, Harald Joerg wrote: >> Very rarely I need to type one or two japanese characters in my >> emacs, and I recall that I did it with LEIM and set-input-method quite >> easily. However, in my current installation, emacs says that LEIM >> isn't installed. > [...] >> As a workaround, I fetched emacs-leim from the web, extracted the >> tar.bz2 and symlinked the contents to /usr/share/21.2/leim. Now >> set-input-method works as expected. But I doubt that this is how it >> ought to be. >> >> * Is there something wrong with my installation (old installation, >> carried over from another machine)? > > No. There was confusion a couple of years ago when it looked like emacs > was going to be updated to version 22.1 (which did include leim). At > that point emacs-leim was declared obsolete. Unfortunately, the > emacs-22.1 build turned out to be unstable, but emacs-leim was never > reinstated. > >> * Would a switch to emacs and emacs-el 23.0.92 be the recommended >> solution (emacs-el 23.0.92 apparently contains LEIM)? > > Yes. BTW, emacs-el is irrelevant; it just contains the library source > files (*.el). The byte-compiled libraries (*.elc), including leim, are > in the emacs package.
Excellent! Many thanks for your clarfications, on both emacs-leim and cygwin's emacs-el package. I have just installed emacs 23.0.92 from setup.exe's "experimental" branch and Japanese characters work like charm. As an additional bonus I found that Emacs is able to save Japanese characters as Unicode which makes interoperation with other programs much easier. Excellent! All I had to do after the upgrade was to *remove* my private installation of gnus 5.10.6. It was outdated, didn't work with Emacs23, and is not necessary since a perfectly working Gnus v5.13 comes bundled with cygwin's emacs 23.0.92. Wonderful! -- Cheers, haj -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple