Re: Howto set-up debian woody for Japanese
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:08:36PM -0400, Steve Kennedy wrote:
> As far as I know, Japanese support is not great in console.
kon2 lacks gpm support and comes with stupid screen savor.
I kind of heard new framebuffer Linux console shall handle Japanese (at
lease boot screen of installer.) I am wondering how to use it.
> Personally, I use X to run my programs in Japanese.
True. But old man has hard time reading small windows. Well I need
some script to start big console screen on X.
> After downloading the needed fonts, kanna servers etc. through
> tasksel/japanese, I answered no to all the messages that tried to set
> up a native Japanese environment - I'm a native English speaker and
> wanted Japanese as an option.
This is my stage too.
> I then open an xterm and run the following script which I saved in
> /usr/local/bin/jpn:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # Start Japanese environment
> export LANG=ja_JP.eucJP
> export LC_MESSAGES=ja_JP.eucJP
> export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucJP
> # Start Japanese input
> export XMODIFIERS=@im=kinput2
> kinput2 -xim -kinput -canna &
Aha ! That is it for X. I had Vine which came with kinput2 configured.
> echo "Ready to write Japanese."
Great short intro for Japanese environment. I thought console like
kterm and gnometerm are Japanese capable too.
> After running this script, any program launched from the same xterm
> comes up with buttons labelled in Japanese. Shift-Space toggles
> Japanese input. After hitting Shift-Space, you should see an "a" in
> hiragana under your cursor. Any text you now enter comes up in
> hiragana. Hitting Space converts hiragana to kanji (henkan). Use Space
> or your arrow keys to select the appropriate kanji, then press Enter to
> input. Pressing the Down arrow while in hiragana entry mode converts
> hiragana directly to katakana. The up key followed by the side arrow
> keys can be used to widen or narrow the henkan area.
This part I know. :) Some old IM for DOS/V and HP200LX (i186 8MHz) DOS-C
environments used Shift-Space. (One small IM company popular with mania
on PC98 tradition was upstream in DOS-C IM)
> Apt-getting jvim-canna should give you vim in Japanese, though I'm not
> sure exactly how it works since I use xjed.
Apt-getting jvim-canna is what I was looking for.
> There are probably other methods to get Japanese running, but this one
> works for me, and easily gives me Galeon and Sylpheed in Japanese.
I got Galeon OK (view only for Japanese, English message). I will work on it.
> Hope that helps,
> Steve
Thanks for this mail. Since this is useful, I will post it to mailing
list. Your e-mail shall not appear if I did this right (I guess some
people do not want to post to ML due to spam. I have procmail to kill
them good.)
> P.S. Your basic debian guide is a really useful resource!
Thanks.
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