-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 14 October 2003 22:37, Don Werve wrote: > All these messages about getting X and such to properly display > international characters got me thinking; does anyone in here have a > functioning setup for entering the above three languages in X terminal > applications like vim and mutt? Or, more accurately, does anyone know > of a good way to input European languages, while at the same time > keeping messages in English and allowing for kinput2-based Japanese > input support? > > I can, of course, set my various locale-related environment variables > and get English-and-German or English-and-Japanese, but if I touch > almost anything, vim stops talking with Kinput (no japanese), but starts > accepting accented German characters (I can again type with umlauts and > such). On top of that, most of my GUI-based X applications, such as > Netscape and OO.o, have absolutely no problem with whatever I decide to > thow at them. > > Any ideas?
AFAIK all asian input methods (IMs) use their own national encodings to create the characters. I don't know any of them which supports unicode. For displaying european accents and umlauts together with asian chars you'll need unicode. However, I use KDE3 and chinese to write mails and documents. My locale is set to en_US.UTF8 and I start a seperate chinese terminal with zh_TW.Big5 to make xcin putting traditional chinese chars into my apps when I start them from the chinese terminal.. When I want to use german, I have to disable xcin (change to English mode) and use the keyboard layout choser in KDE to change to german keyboard layout. Then I can input german chars at least into KDE apps, not into konsole, because of the locale settings. example: locale is en_US.UTF8. in KDE I start a Big5 xcinterm to get a chinese terminal with xcin as IM. The locale in that terminal is set to zh_TW.Big5. - From that terminal I start kmail. Now I can either type chinese, or use the KDE keyboard layout choose to change my keyboard to german. Then I can type german umlauts. If the mail is sent as UTF8, the receipient will be able to read it as long as he has the correct fonts installed. I know that for chinese (xcin) unicode support is work in progress. Cheers Arne - -- Arne Goetje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Spam catcher. Address might change in future!) PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/685D1E8C Fingerprint: 2056 F6B7 DEA8 B478 311F 1C34 6E9F D06E 685D 1E8C Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/jKT9bp/QbmhdHowRApArAJ4x+QLR/dwXIn5jO2OPbBBLjZnwKwCguQA7 6sd5h0IiQtY7tAq78x3IbRE= =xuCP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
