Hi, From: Jakub Turski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Making my potato japanese capable =D Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 13:20:22 +0200
> > freewnn-kserver is a conversion server for Japanese text input. You need > > a frontend in order to use that server. On X11, use "kinput2-wnn". Correction: freewnn-kserver is for Korean. freewnn-jserver is for Japanese. > Two important things: > 1/ I'm rather using a console... X11 is a last resort, slow and > unfriendly (for me, that is :) Kon + jvim works nice... but the problem > is as above. > 2/ I _hate_ emacs. Sorry, no bonus, maybe it has some special Japanese > features, but I won't use it... :> If you don't like emacs and you don't use X, it will be somewhat troublesome to input Japanese. You should use 'canna', an alternative Japanese-inputing server, instead of wnn or freewnn-jserver. There are some clients which can speak the canna protocol. For example, jvim-canna, jed-canna, and nvi-m17n-canna are editors which can communicate directly with canna server. You can also use 'emacs20-dl' + 'emacs-dl-canna', 'kinput2-canna', and so on if you like. # There are softwares to input Japanese with wnn and canna in # the console environment. They are called 'uum' and 'canuum'. # However, they are not available as Debian packages. > > Try create another account for learning Japanese, and use user-ja-conf in > > user-ja package. user-ja is a configuration tool for Japanese environment, > > and it has /usr/share/doc/user-ja/README.e.gz > > :) I downloaded it, but it asks a bunch of questions... in Japanese. > Long hours w/ dictionary coming ahead.... I am a developer of user-ja package. Sorry not to prepare an extensive document in English. I decided not to prepare it because I would not be able to maintain such a document... (Well, if many people want English document, I will prepare it.) Note that 'user-ja' package will be obsolete and integrated into 'language-env' package in Woody. It supports not only Japanese but also German, Spanish, Thai, and Russian. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://surfchem0.riken.go.jp/~kubota/
