Hi, At Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:35:28 +0900, JC Helary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i recently decided to do my best at setting up a japanese environment for my > debian console. i work with debian 2.1 (the 2cd set published a while ago in > linux japan). Please tell me which version of user-ja you are using. And, please tell me which shell you are using. (user-ja supports bash and tcsh only. No support for zsh and so on.) > as a mutt user i find it painful to read the few japanese mails i get through > the [mail] command under kon, is there a way out of this ? plus [mail] does > not > seem to accept ^o or ^\ as japanese input method toggling. am i wrong > somewhere ? In general, inputing Japanese under non-X environment is difficult. There are no generic way. (Thus you need canna-supported vi.) (One generic way is to use skkfep package but it doesn't support canna.) Sorry I don't use mutt and I don't understand how to input Japanese for mutt. > mutt and lynx seem to have the same problem : i had lynx before, i shifted to > lynx-ja, but under kon all the accentuated french turns into mojibake... i > did not install mutt-ja (?) for fear of what would happen to my french mails > :-) do i have to constantly shift in and out of kon to get something out of > both applications ? are there smarter applications that respect the text > encoding on the debian market or did i miss something in the configuration ? You may want to study about character encoding and then you will understand displaying both French (accented alphabets) and Japanese is impossible unless using ISO-2022 or UTF-8. You can use jfbterm instead of kon. It is an ISO-2022-based internationalized terminal like kon using frame buffer of Linux kernel 2.2. You can use emacs (version 20 or after) and have (set-terminal-coding-system 'iso-2022-7bit) in your ~/.emacs file. Then please use a mailer on emacs which understands "content-type: text/plain; charset=????" line. You will also have to configure jfbterm to use both JIS-X-0208 and ISO-8859-1 X fonts. I don't know about UTF-8-based internationalized terminal which support Japanese. (You know, unicode_start in console-tools package doesn't support Japanese.) --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/
