Kaixo! On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:57:24PM +0900, J. Grant wrote:
> However the japanese support in mdk8.1 is broken, not only do none of > the kanji get displayed properly but kinput for wnn is not installed by > default! Yes, that was indeed a very bad bug. It has been fixed in Cooker some time ago and so won't be present on future releases anymore. > Playing with smome stuff can i got kinput working on english mandrake > with kterm, but not in Xwindows as a whole. kterm is special as it has special handling of Japanese (and only Japanese); but for all other programs you need, in order to input or view Japanese text, to launch the program from a locale supporting it. So, you should set your locale to Japanese and not to Englmish. If you want Japanese support yet English menus, I suggest to put the following in your $HOME/.i18n file: LC_ALL=ja LANGUAGE=C You need of course the "locales-ja" package installed. > Do you know of any HOWTOS on this issue? I am considering writing one, > as I can not find one. Maybe such Howto exist, in Japanese. > > IMHO, Mandrake should consider a real Japanese version - they are much When choosing Japanese language during install that is what you get; well, that is what you should get; I apologize for the bug of kinput not being installed. -- Ki �a vos v�ye b�n, Pablo Saratxaga http://www.srtxg.easynet.be/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0x8F0E4975
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