On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:08:36PM -0400, Steve Kennedy wrote: > As far as I know, Japanese support is not great in console.
kon2 lacks gpm support and comes with stupid screen savor. I kind of heard new framebuffer Linux console shall handle Japanese (at lease boot screen of installer.) I am wondering how to use it. > Personally, I use X to run my programs in Japanese. True. But old man has hard time reading small windows. Well I need some script to start big console screen on X. > After downloading the needed fonts, kanna servers etc. through > tasksel/japanese, I answered no to all the messages that tried to set > up a native Japanese environment - I'm a native English speaker and > wanted Japanese as an option. This is my stage too. > I then open an xterm and run the following script which I saved in > /usr/local/bin/jpn: > > #!/bin/sh > # Start Japanese environment > export LANG=ja_JP.eucJP > export LC_MESSAGES=ja_JP.eucJP > export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucJP > # Start Japanese input > export [EMAIL PROTECTED] > kinput2 -xim -kinput -canna & Aha ! That is it for X. I had Vine which came with kinput2 configured. > echo "Ready to write Japanese." Great short intro for Japanese environment. I thought console like kterm and gnometerm are Japanese capable too. > After running this script, any program launched from the same xterm > comes up with buttons labelled in Japanese. Shift-Space toggles > Japanese input. After hitting Shift-Space, you should see an "a" in > hiragana under your cursor. Any text you now enter comes up in > hiragana. Hitting Space converts hiragana to kanji (henkan). Use Space > or your arrow keys to select the appropriate kanji, then press Enter to > input. Pressing the Down arrow while in hiragana entry mode converts > hiragana directly to katakana. The up key followed by the side arrow > keys can be used to widen or narrow the henkan area. This part I know. :) Some old IM for DOS/V and HP200LX (i186 8MHz) DOS-C environments used Shift-Space. (One small IM company popular with mania on PC98 tradition was upstream in DOS-C IM) > Apt-getting jvim-canna should give you vim in Japanese, though I'm not > sure exactly how it works since I use xjed. Apt-getting jvim-canna is what I was looking for. > There are probably other methods to get Japanese running, but this one > works for me, and easily gives me Galeon and Sylpheed in Japanese. I got Galeon OK (view only for Japanese, English message). I will work on it. > Hope that helps, > Steve Thanks for this mail. Since this is useful, I will post it to mailing list. Your e-mail shall not appear if I did this right (I guess some people do not want to post to ML due to spam. I have procmail to kill them good.) > P.S. Your basic debian guide is a really useful resource! Thanks. -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> @ Cupertino, CA USA + -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
