On Monday 15 September 2003 5:01 am, Rebecca Dridan wrote: > Hi all, > > I speak a little Japanese and am now learning Mandarin. I would like > to be able to read and write both languages on my computers, but > leave my systems basically in English. > > I'm looking mostly to be reading and writing Japanese with a text > editor. I use vim and do not want to learn emacs. My desktop runs > gnome on sid, and the server that I ssh into to read my mail is > running woody. I'd like to use Japanese on both. I use the following configuration (originally set up on a Mandrake box, moved it over to debian and got it working well there too): LC_TELEPHONE=en_US LC_PAPER=en_US LC_NAME=en_US LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_US LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US LC_MONETARY=en_US LC_TIME=en_US LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US LC_ADDRESS=en_US LC_MESSAGES=en_US LC_COLLATE=en_US XMODIFIERS="@im=kinput2" XIM=kinput2 XIM_PROGRAM=kinput2 This makes everything display in English, but gives the correct LANG and LC_CTYPE to programs so that they will correctly use kinput2 as the input method, but forces them to display all output and interfaces in English. This works in *all* programs, so I can use vi, xemacs, Qt & Gtk & GNOME apps, whatever. As far as switching between Japanese and Chinese input methods, you'll have to do some creative LANG switching; I've seen a few posts already suggesting how to do this. -- Wesley J. Landaker - wjl@icecavern.net OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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