Re: [expert] Japanese input in KDE

2002-01-16 Thread Chris Spackman
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

Re: [expert] Japanese input in KDE

2002-01-16 Thread Chris Spackman
"Jones,Daniel E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am told (no personal experience) that TurboLinux does Japanese quite > well. I have seen it in the shops here but have never been impressed by them. They are expensive and seem to be a lot like Caldera - going their own way, with no concern for t

Re: [expert] Japanese input in KDE

2002-01-16 Thread J. Grant
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 Xwindow

Re: [expert] Japanese input in KDE

2002-01-17 Thread Chris Spackman
"J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps my situation is similar to yours. [snip] > Do you know of any HOWTOS on this issue? I am considering writing one, > as I can not find one. I don't know of any. Last I checked -- probably close to a year ago -- everything dealing with japanese in

Re: [expert] Japanese input in KDE

2002-01-17 Thread James Sparenberg
Don't know if this helps, but while trying to make Mandrake7.0 speak Korean I ran across this site. The guy is knee deep in internationalizing linux to speak Japanese. http://tlug.linux.or.jp/craigoda/writings/linux-nihongo/ James PS to get some of the Korean working I "borrowed" heavily from

Re: [expert] Japanese input in KDE

2002-01-17 Thread J. Grant
Chris Spackman wrote: > > [snip] > I would be willing to help a bit with getting Japanese mandrake going, > let me know if you want some help on the howto. > They have control centre etc in english and japanese, seems to change the setup when i log out of kde after chainging, rather fancy

Re: [expert] Japanese input in KDE

2002-01-17 Thread Chris Spackman
"J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > They have control centre etc in english and japanese, seems to change > the setup when i log out of kde after chainging, rather fancy eh? Well, it is a good start at least. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9

Re: [expert] Japanese input in KDE

2002-01-17 Thread Pablo Saratxaga
Kaixo! On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 05:06:35PM +0900, Chris Spackman wrote: > One thought --- have Mandrake specific tools like the control center > been localized for Japanese yet? Yes; most of them. You can see the advancement of the translations of our tools for various languages at the page htt

Re: [expert] Japanese input in KDE

2002-01-17 Thread Pablo Saratxaga
Kaixo! On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:57:24PM +0900, J. Grant wrote: > 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! Yes, that was indeed a very bad bug. It has been fixed in Cooker some t

RE: [expert] Japanese input in KDE

2002-01-17 Thread Tal Amir
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, work wrote: > Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:23:19 - > From: work <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [expert] Japanese input in KDE > > Could y

RE: [expert] Japanese input in KDE

2002-01-17 Thread work
: [expert] Japanese input in KDE Kaixo! On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:57:24PM +0900, J. Grant wrote: > 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! Yes, that was indeed a very bad bu

Re: [expert] Japanese input in KDE

2002-01-24 Thread Pablo Saratxaga
Kaixo! On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 08:19:34PM +0900, J. Grant wrote: > I now have a working Japanese envoiroment, i had to hack it up a little > to get it working, perhaps there are some improvements that can be made. > $ cat .i18n > LC_TYPE=ja > LANGUAGE=C > LANG=ja_JP > XIM=kinput2 > XIM_PROGRA

Re: [expert] Japanese input in KDE

2002-01-24 Thread J. Grant
Hello, I now have a working Japanese envoiroment, i had to hack it up a little to get it working, perhaps there are some improvements that can be made. I followed these guides http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=1420&lang=en and an english guide for japanese as a second language http:/

Re: [expert] Japanese input in KDE

2002-01-24 Thread J. Grant
Hello! Well, I tried your sugestion and everything for JA* as well UTF-8 does not work with mandrake and kinput (when using en_GB or ja_*), i could not get it to write anything. I set up KDE each time as well. Now i changed it to that i can write in KDE, but that is limited to EUC Mozilla can