Hi, >>>>> Jean-Christophe Helary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But if I manage to get a UTF-8 environment working in the 3 languages > I use daily maybe I'll consider going further. > My general feeling was that even though Debian gave potential access > to a great number of m17n features, those did not seem to be proposed > by default. I am still surprised that the default locale is not by > default a UTF-8 encoded one. I'm surprised, too :) But Debian's UTF-8 support seems quite mature now I'm running en_US.utf-8 on 3 linux installations I regularly use. I would really suggest you try to get X-Windows working. If setup of Debian takes too much time and effort, you might like Ubuntu. This is a distribution derived from Debian with lots of auto-configuration and user-friendliness added on top. I managed to install a quite new Laptop in only 1 hour with x-windows, networking (even WLAN), sound and everything working. If you need japanese input in X, you will be surprised how well that works with GTK2-apps. Just install uim, uim-anthy and uim-gtk2.0, run uim-pref-gtk, select "Anthy" as the default input method. Now you can toggle japanese input by pressing Shift+Space. Firefox (and Thunderbird?) will also support japanese input this way. For Gnome, you can also run uim-toolbar-gtk, which allows easier switching of input methods. Getting japanese input into other X-Apps will take more effort. This relies on the XIM interface which can be supported using uim-xim. Openoffice, for example, will be able to do japanese in-line editing this way. regards and good luck, David -- GnuPG public key: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~dvdkhlng/dk.gpg Fingerprint: B17A DC95 D293 657B 4205 D016 7DEF 5323 C174 7D40 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
