On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 09:40:18PM -0500, Josh Huber wrote:
> I'm trying out mutt version 1.3.11i, mostly because it has support for
> automatically switching the charset= line in outgoing emails to the
> proper encoding.
>
> Here's the problem: I can't get japanese to display properly without
> using something like LANG=ja_JP /usr/local/bin/mutt, which causes
> subprocessies (like gpg) to run with that language envionment.
>
> I'd like it to display text without setting the LANG variable, so I
> looked at the charset variable, and tried setting it to iso-2022-jp,
> which didn't seem to do anything, except prevent me from viewing
> japanese text. (of all things)
>
> am I clueless here? anyone have hints on how to set this up? I'm
> using xemacs with canna for input/sending email, btw.
>
> also, is this the proper place for these questions? people on -dev
> might have a better idea :)
>
> thanks in advance,
OK here is my take:
There are two xterms you can choose to display Japanese character set.
However I have only tried the more popular shift-jis encoding, which the
other one is deprecated, I think.
One is Kanjiterm, Kterm in short. However, it is a bit hard to find.
The other one is Aterm, which is called the Afterstep Term. You have
to compile Aterm with somthing like "--enable-kanji" with configure.
Once you have it compiled. Start Aterm, fire up lynx and load the page
"http://www.yahoo.co.jp/". Notice: lynx support for Japanese and Chinese
encoding is a bit broken.
Enlightened Term (Eterm) said to support Kanji (which is a bad
description), I have yet to get it to work, you might need to set the
locale variables.
However, if you use emacs, you should try out MULE, which is a
multi-lingual edition for emacs. If you want X apps to display
Japanese, there are more you have to do then just the xterm.
Anyone would like to comment further?
