Re: Japanese fonts in gnome-terminal

[Victor Munoz <vmunoz@macul.ciencias.uchile.cl>]

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:42:47PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> You might want to change to an rxvt that does unicode or kxvt. It
> appears that mutt/jed are having a tough time picking up the right
> encoding from gnome-terminal. Some old hacks (from 2004) on the
> jed-users mailing list show this for jed, fixing russian input and
> reading issues. 
> 
> Sheesh: 
> http://www.tlug.jp/craigoda/writings/linux-nihongo/node42.html
> 
> Long time for this problem to persist. Looks like a kanji enabled rxvt
> is the ticket.
> 
> You might also want to submit a bug against gnome-terminal for this.

Thanks for the tips, but I have been unable to make it work. I
installed rxvt-ml, rxvt-unicode-ml, mrxvt-cjk, kterm, and nothing. All
of them are able to show correctlty 'cat'-ted files, for instance, but
none of them works with mutt+Japanese mails. At least in kterm I found
a way to make a pop-up menu appear, so I could change the encoding,
but still no luck. I noticed, in the link you gave, that this guy not
only calls a kanji enabled terminal, but a kanji enabled mutt, which I
could not find in Debian. Calling "mrxvt -km eucj/sjis" doesn't help
either. 

All this is very strange of course, as I had this working in sarge,
and I recently tried successfully in Ubuntu, and I never needed
anything else but some fonts, locales, and the usual
mutt/jed/gnome-terminal. But if there's any other suggestion as to how
to make this work in *any* terminal I would be more than grateful :-)

Regards,

Victor