Alireza,
You can also ask questions on the Tokyo Linux Users Group
mailing list (an English language list). You can sign
up from their web page: http://www.tlug.gr.jp/
There are a number of knowledgable people there, including
one of the authors of O'Reilly's book on setting up Linux to work
in Japanese. That book is the best thing I have seen so far.
It is only available in Japanese now, but I understand that
an English version is coming out this year.
You can order it from
http://www.amazon.co.jp/
Craig Ota's Linux-Nihongo document (which turned into the O'Reilly
book) is here:
http://www.tlug.gr.jp/craigoda/writings/linux-nihongo/
It is pretty comprehensive, but a bit out of date.
You might also look at:
http://anime.collapsar.net/nihongo/JIM/
and
http://yawara.anime.net/gaijinFAQ/
-Jake
--- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At Thu, 12 Apr 2001 12:13:00 +0430 (IRST),
> Alireza Bagheri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > How can add Japanese support to Linux (for example RedHat 6.2),
> > such that I can type Japanese in some editors?
> > How can I add Japanese support to a console text mode application?
> > Is there any body who did it before and can help me?
>
> It is a difficult question. For Japanese people, I can advise
> to buy a few books on this theme. Yes, this theme is so complicated
> that the explanation amounts to books with some hundreds of pages.
> (One of major objectives of my works around free softwares is to
> build a (free) system we will not need such books any more.)
> [If you can read Japanese books and would like to buy some books,
> please ask me. I will introduce you some books.]
>
> At first, you will have to set up displaying environment.
> for console, install "kon2" or "jfbterm". "Kterm" is
> Japanese-enabled X terminal emulator. There are some more
> X terminal emulators which can support Japanese by compilation
> option (Rxvt, Eterm, Aterm, ...). You will need Japanese fonts.
> Many softwares need recompilation to enable multibyte languages,
> many softwares need run-time option to enable multibyte languages,
> and many softwares don't support multibyte languages.
>
> Then you will need locale database. Multibyte languages such
> as Japanese are supported formally since GNU libc 2.2 . For
> glibc 2.1 system, you will need additional Japanese locale data.
> For glibc 2.0 system, you will need additional library (libwcsmbs).
>
> You will need to set up your environmental variables to use
> Japanese locale. LANG should be "ja_JP.eucJP" in recent systems
> or "ja_JP.ujis" in old (or many current) systems.
>
> To input Japanese character, you will need kana-kanji conversion
> engine. There are three major free softwares -- canna, freewnn,
> and skk. Each of them has its own characteristic; conversion
> efficiency, speed, disk consumption, and so on. Since these engine
> have their own protocol, you will need special clients or protocol
> converters. For X softwares, XIM is the standard protocol to
> input complex languages. For canna-XIM and freewnn-XIM conversion,
> you will need kinput2. For skk-XIM conversion, you will need
> skkinput.
> For console, you will need canuum (for canna), uum (for freewnn),
> or skkfep (for skk).
>
> I am very sure that you will find difficulty to configure these
> softwares and you will want to ask more. Unfortunately, there are
> rather few number of Japanese people in this mailing list. And
> more, this mailing list is development-oriented, not suitable for
> "howto" topic.
>
> Since I am a Debian developer, I can suggest you to subscribe
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> for such questions if you use Debian. I don't know about RedHat-
> specific lists. However, I suggest to ask in fj.os.linux newsgroup.
> There would be many people who can suggest you more appropriate
> mailing lists for this purpose. http://www.linux.or.jp may also
> help you.
>
> ---
> Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> http://surfchem0.riken.go.jp/~kubota/
> "Introduction to I18N"
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/
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