On sid, using kinput with canna, I use the GNOME environment.Using the <shift-space> I can input 日本語 quite happily. Although I don't know japanese much at all yet, it is gratifying that most gnome applications provide quite usable support.
The default configuration through set-language-env is EUC (Extended Unix Code). Mozilla for mail, you can apply a UTF encoding (like this email) and it will quite happily send the data in a form that is mostly readable for non-unix browsers. vi+gnome-terminal work a treat and handle the double width characters fine.
Openoffice is a nice alternative the input works nicely... Once you set up the font.
If you make an openoffice document, you can print to pdf which works nicely and cross platform. Mind you I did play with docbook in japanese for a while, but couldn't get it to reliably go from docbook to pdf and maintain the kanji and hiragana characters. But openoffice does it nicely, so that is solved.
Any other questions, drop me a line. Regards, Matthew Pied Axioplase wrote:
Hum, I am using a SID too, and i can manage to input japanese, although i am wondering whether it is possible to input some *anywhere*. I mean, can i input Japanese somewhere else that in my mlterm, such as in xchat or even mozilla? Because i feel tired to copy/paste everytime i have to write in Japanese. And moreover, whenever i input some, i have to have my text SJIS so that windows users can read it.Did i misconfigured my system?As a student in Japanese, i d really like to be able to input/show/print Japanese easily.reguards, Pied. Linux 2.4.20 Kinput2 and canna and a big dirty mix of utf8/SJIS/ja_JP.eucJP in my locales and env :/ On Sunday 25 May 2003 14:00, Matthew Tippett wrote:Install the language-env package. set-language-env is the program to run. In terms of inputing japanese, there kinput2 is the route to go. It works great for for inputting japanese. I am using sid, so I don't know if it has what you need in woody. Regards, Matthew (Just starting to learn Japanese personally) Guldo K wrote:Hello :-) I'm using debian woody, localized in italian, and I'd like it to work in jap too. I mean, I can read japanese, but how can I write it too? (besides emacs, that I can already use for that) I tried and set up a multi-language environment following chapter 9 of the debian reference, but I can't get it to work. Do you have some advice about this? Thank you very much, Guldo Linux 2.4.20 Debian Woody 3.0