Hi, I'm trying to set up Japanese on a fresh Mandrake 8.0 install so that my wife can at least read and write emails in Japanese. I've got the standard 2 downloadable CDs w. 8.0. Here's what I've tried so far: During install, I selected English as the main language, Japanese, Icelandic and German as extra languages. [Btw, if anybody can tell me how to activate and deactivate the keyboard mappings in X for Icelandic and German on demand, I'd appreciate it] After install, rpm -qa | grep -i wnn gave FreeWnn-1.1.1-0.a017.9mdk and the jserver service was started on boot time. However, kinput2 was nowhere to be found. It turned out that the checksum listed for the kinput2 rpm stored on the install CD didn't match with the rpm on that same CD! Anyway, I used rpm (which doesn't check the checksum) instead of the software manager and installed kinput2-wnn4-v3-10mdk from the 1st CD. [The software manager claimed the kinput2 package should be approx. 600KB, the one I found on rpmfind.net and was on the 1st cd was 227294 bytes.] Now, armed with this and kterm (came with the install) I should be able to type in the few Japanese charactes that I know, right? I decided to focus on kterm since that is written with double byte characters in mind. I put KTerm*inputMethod: kinput2 in my .Xdefaults and restarted X. Right now, jserver is running, I'm in a terminal in KDE, I've set XMODIFIERS="@im=kinput2" in the shell, and I start kinput2&, followed by kterm &. I immediately get the messages: Warning: Actions not found: begin-conversion Warning: Actions not found: begin-conversion Warning: Actions not found: begin-conversion If I do ctrl-middle mouse and select "open input method" I get the messages: Warning: missing font: ISO8859-1 Warning: missing font: JISX0208.1983-0 Warning: missing font: JISX0201.1976-0 Couldn't create input context. I've also tried kinput2 -wnn, kinput2 -jserver 127.0.0.1 and setting LANG=ja_JP in kterm. However, nothing has allowed me to type in Japanese. A final point I think might be useful to know: rpm -qa | grep -i ja gives [among other things]: locales-ja-2.3.1-7mdk kde-i18n-ja-2.1.1-2mdk man-pages-ja-0.5-2mdk fonts-ttf-japanese-0.19990222-7mdk howto-html-ja-8.0-1mdk Any ideas about how I should proceed towards my goal: Keeping the UI in English and being able to read and write emails in Japanese in a simple manner using a GUI mail program? Thanks, Narfi. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
