Back to that pesky console... Environment: I have an old iBook on which I just put Debian from an old network install with Sarge as base.
I've generated 3 locales: en_US-utf8/fr_FR-utf-8 and ja_JA-utf-8 and choose the en_US-utf-8 by default. Now, I can use emacs 22 from the standard console and use the input method French to french-prefix and I can type French. When I set the method to japanese, I get full mojibake in the form of endless "?????" anywhere I type Japanese. So, I set terminal-encoding to utf-8 and now my French is all mojibaked and the Japanese is differently mojibaked: it comes is different characters now... When I load fbiterm with the following fonts (it can't be launched without setting the fonts): fbiterm -a /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/8x16.pcf.gz -m /usr/lib/X11/fonts/uni/unifont.pcf.gz I can't even use French input in emacs anymore, the accented characters do not appear... And the Japanese is not working either. And if I set terminal-encoding to utf-8 I get no progress. When I set "prefered-encoding" to UTF-8 all my previously fine French input is suddenly not working anymore... So, whatever I do it seems emacs 22 wants to use latin-1 for French and shift-jis for Japanese (that it can't even display even though there are supposedly plenty of fonts for that...) It seems I am missing something trivial. Jean-Christophe Helary On 2 oct. 06, at 17:39, David Kuehling wrote: >>>>>> "Jean-Christophe" == Jean-Christophe Helary <[email protected]> >>>>>> writes: >> Now I need to figure out a number of things that are not exactly >> clear: > >> 1) My keyboard is roughly a jp106. How can configure the system to be >> able to input French with as little hassle as possible ? > >> 2) Second input question: I need Japanese input. What is the input >> method that works the best with fbiterm ? And will all applications >> running in fbiterm accept the input. Are there still applications that >> do not support UTF-8 input/display ? > > You might want to consider using emacs on console to do your work. > Install emacs21 and mule-ucs. On Debian Sarge you will need to define > some environment variable to actually activate mule-ucs (see > /usr/share/doc/mule-ucs/README.Debian or Changelog) > > In emacs, enter M-x set-terminal-coding-system <Ret> utf-8 <Ret> to > enable emacs to output japanese characters on your console. > > To input japanese, enter M-x set-input-method <Ret> japanese <Ret> > > To input french, you might try > M-x set-input-method <Ret> french-prefix <Ret> > > If you need a console with japanese input, just run a console from > within emacs: M-x shell <Ret> > or probably better: M-x eshell <Ret> > > To enter M-x (Meta-x) from the console, you might have to press the > sequence <Esc> x instead. > > If you need a more evolved input method than the emacs-internal > "japanese", try to install anthy and anthy-el. Then configure anthy for > japanese input. This should work much better. > > To view the documentation of emacs' internal japanese input method, > enter > > M-x describe-input-method <Ret> japanese <Ret> > > regards, > > David > -- > GnuPG public key: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~dvdkhlng/dk.gpg > Fingerprint: B17A DC95 D293 657B 4205 D016 7DEF 5323 C174 7D40 > Jean-Christophe Helary --------------------------------- fun: mac4translators.blogspot.com work: www.doublet.jp (ja/en > fr) tweets: @brandelune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
