Perhaps my situation is similar to yours. However the japanese support in mdk8.1 is broken, not only do none of the kanji get displayed properly but kinput for wnn is not installed by default!
Playing with smome stuff can i got kinput working on english mandrake with kterm, but not in Xwindows as a whole. Do you know of any HOWTOS on this issue? I am considering writing one, as I can not find one. JG I cc this to the people listed by rpm -q kinput2-wnn4-v3.1-0.1mdk --changelog Chris Spackman wrote: > How badly do you need Japanese? Does it all have to be japanese, or do > you just need to write the occasional japanese document? > > I gave up trying to get Mandrake to do all Japanese - but didn't try > that hard, because I don't need menus in Japanese, I just need > to occasionally read and write some email or a letter in Japanese. > > My solution to this was to switch to emacs. emacs can input / read / > save Japanese just fine and with LaTeX and the CJK package, creating > and printing documents is not a problem. Email can be done with emacs > and gnus. > > If you need more than that - ie a completely japanese-language system, > I am afraid I cannot help much. I had most of the same problems you > are having. Red Hat makes a japanese version, but it isn't as good as > mandrake. > > IMHO, Mandrake should consider a real Japanese version - they are much > better than Red Hat on the desktop and Asia isn't nearly as entralled > with MS as the States are. I could probably get my office to try > Mandrake if it was in Japanese. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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