On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:24:59PM -0800, Richard Gananathan wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 06:07:11AM -0500, Scott wrote: > > ! iconv -f whatever -t utf-8 > > > I have found the culprit! It seems to be neither unicode or Shift-JIS > but it is 'iso-2022-jp'. Now how would I get my messages sent in that? > ISO-2022-JP is a common encoding for Japanese. Actually, if you go on freenode #nihongo, there will be a message, ISO-2022 only. (I think that's the channel and server, but there is a channel like that.)
IIRC, xchat will encode in ISO-2022 as will some other GTK apps. So, it probably defaulted to that. You should be able to read that though in mutt--at least, I'm able to read ISO-2022 in mutt with mlterm--and I believe, I might have to set my LC_CTYPE to ja_JP.utf-8, but my memory is hazy. I do remember there was a problem with mutt-ng in FreeBSD, because it wasn't building properly with slang, I had to use curses, and therefore, a non-UTF-8 message made me errm, curse. <ducks and runs>. > > You got it right, he is my sempai. Though he doesn't make fun of me so > much. I wonder if I'll be brave enough to send the message now. Too bad > I don't have a KDDI phone to test it. > Just to answer posts that came up afterwards, a senpai (pronounced sempai, but written in hiragana with with N) :) is a senior--it could be a mentor, a student ahead of you at school, just someone more experienced than you. > and many people think that me using Linux is the cause of > incompatibility problems. Maybe you won't understand, but I don't like > to show screw ups like that. It gives Linux a bad name. In 5 years, when they are pwNed by MS, they'll understand. :) Seriously, I do understand. Perhaps you can find another friend with a KDDI phone who might let you test. So, his messages are sent in ISO-2022... I don't think Arch offers that locale right now. > > a mutt page too, http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/mutt.html) > > Well would you look at that, I follow the link only to find the page > familiar. I found your mutt page on a google search. The one in the > Archwiki didn't seem to work for me but I got mutt working with the help > from your page. Thanks again. > (Modest bow, muttering iie, iie, tonde mo nai) There's also one on using mutt with gmail. :) http://www.scottro.net/qnd/qnd-gmail.html (As I've been doing a lot of work with that machine, it's not always available, but most of the time it is reachable.) > > Asian character support has come a LOOOONG way. If you can find it, > > take a look at Mr. Oda's Japanese in Linux howto from 1997 or so, and > > see how difficult it used to be. > > > > Luckily I can't find it. > Heh, tlug keeps it up. http://www.tlug.jp/craigoda/writings/linux-nihongo It's interesting to look at it. Just the installation chapter makes you realize how it's advanced. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Anyanka: You trusting fool. How do you know the other world is any better than this? Giles: Because it has to be. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
