2015/09/22 0:43 "Anthony J. Bentley" <[email protected]>:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> Peter Kane writes:
> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>
wrote:
> > > On 2015/09/20 13:45, Peter Kane wrote:
> > >> Hello
> > >>
> > >> I wanted to set up some Japanese input
>
> jless, jvim, and kterm are all basically patchsets on top of very old
> forks of existing projects. None of them have been updated in the past
> 15 years. In the meantime the projects they were forked from have gained
> multilingual support of their own and are still actively developed.
>
> The native Japanese OpenBSD users I know use uim, anthy, and xterm.

Some recent threads:

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&w=2&r=1&s=japanese&q=b

My personal experiences (old blogpost, might be useful for reference):

http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2014/12/typing-in-japanese-in-openbsd.html

> Also, it looks like kterm defaults to EUC-JP. That's not so great, as
> most OpenBSD software that cares about encodings should be using UTF-8,
> and in the future will keep moving in that direction.
>
> Due to these factors (plus the amd64 problems), I'm inclined to remove
> these dead ports. Marc?

I find myself thinking I should have something to say about this, but not
knowing what.

They were a blind alley for me at one point, but I suspect there might
still be some obscure cases, etc., and those who are most interested have a
difficult time keeping up with English posts.

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