On Tuesday 31 July 2001 22:51, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a sysadmin for an international group of scientists, and a > recent arrival from Japan was inquiring about the possibility of > reading and responding to Japanese encoded email with her Linux box. > I remember that at one point there was a Debian-JP group, and IIRC, > their packages were fully integrated into Debian. > > Can someone give me some pointers on how what packages / configurations > are necessary to allow my user to communicate in Japanese, while > still leaving the majority of the system in English? > > Thanks! > > Chris
I've dealt with the same problem, but with Chinese, and my solution will probably work for you. First off, Mozilla supports many character sets, including Japanese, Chinese, etc, so I suggest using Mozilla for browsing and reading Email. What Mozilla won't do for you is allow Japanese input. For typing Japanese, I suggest using Emacs with the Mule extensions. This will allow you to create a Japanese-coded text file, which can be copied and pasted into an Email message or sent as an attachment. - Robert Storey
