Re: Fw: Does MULE require canna and/or wnn?
Hi. I read your mail on debian-japanese@lists.debian.org.
In article <[🔎] 19990629095102N.maehara@master.debian.or.jp>
Keita Maehara <maehara@debian.org> writes:
> What I need to know is whether it's true, as the current
> xemacs21-mule package description states, that the binary with only
> Mule and no canna or wnn will not be useful for input of non-european
> text, but can only be used to read it. Is there a way in XEmacs that
> a person can type Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic,
> or what have you? Does it work "out of the box", or will it require
> some setups of some kind on my part? (to be provided by the Debian
> packages I will produce.)
I don't have much experience of XEmacs, but I suppose that user can
type Japanese in XEmacs (with only Mule) using skk related packages.
# Or can not ?
> I understand that Canna, Wnn, kwnn, Egg, Xim, and those things are
> for Asian languages... I know very little about them, and by myself
> have no clue how to even see if they work. There's not a thing like
> that for the other alphabets, so there must be a way folks can type
> that stuff on a standard clatterboard. Is that also true for the
> Asian scripts? I found lists in the "leim" directories that looks
> like if you type a mnemonic set of ascii, it will insert an asian
> character or something. Maybe the mnemonic is phonetic? Hmmm.
> YTMAWBK[1].
Sorry, I can not understand, but,,, may be "ro-ma ji input" is
phonetic method. There are also "kana input", and it is another
phenetic (in Japanese, but not in English) method. There are also
complete no phonetic input method (like T-code) for Japanese, I think.
# sorry, I can not explain well.
> Anyway, please try and give me whatever info yous think I'll need to
> provide a working set of Mule packages for yous. Perhaps I will need
> hands-on assitance... I have a CVS repository set up; I'm vendor
> tracking cvs.xemacs.org, and keeping the Debian control stuff and a
> few patches in the HEAD revsion.
> What is the minimal set of "xemacs-packages/mule/**" stuff that the
> xemacs21-mule* package ought to depend on? (that is to say, which of
> them must be installed for you to clatterboard at someone in your
> native heiroglyphics?)
May be kawamura@debian.org can explain more detail. He is the maintainer
of skk related packages. or kitame@debian.org, he is XEmacs specialist
in Debian JP.
Thanks.
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Taketoshi Sano: <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>, <sano@debian.org>
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