On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 20:38, MonMotha wrote: > Yeah, I actually have a question for once :) > > I'm not really an X guy, so I wouldn't even know where to begin on this. > > I'm interested in setting up alternate input methods to allow me to type > characters that aren't on my keyboard in X. I'm mostly interested in the > greek characters as well as Katakana from Japanese (and if I get Hirigana > and Kanji as a bonus, so be it).
Monmotha, Are you looking for keyboard mapping, or just a input method? I find that Kword allows you to insert special characters (those unicode characters you have fonts to handle?). I use it for inputting greek into texts. > > No distro specific solutions are allowed (other than maybe Debian if you > must, though I'd prefer to keep it distro neutral so I could do it on > another distro if I had to). Any software that Debian has a package for > (which is pretty much everything) can be used (so things like the kana > manager), but I need to know the actual config changes that need to be made. > CJK is a whole different thing, if you want to do more than insert a few characters. There are a few input utilities for X out there, I use kinput2, but I know other list members use others. And I think Warren had a helpful webpage on the topic. But is this what you need? > --MonMotha > _______________________________________________ > LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list > http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau -- James A. Stroble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>