Yasuhide Numata <[email protected]> writes: > Dear all, > > Yesterday we had an instruction session of Sage > at Sage Days 39 in Japan. > At the instruction of installation, > we had some trouble. > > For Windows user, > there exist images for virtual machine. > Its guest OS is minimum, > so it may not have Japanese fonts. > # I am not sure because I usually use Linux. > I prepared Sage Worksheet in Japanese Language, > but all letters are shown as just boxes. > > A few years ago, > the usage of the image for windows users is following; > run only a notebook server on a virtual machine. > run browser on Windows to access to the sever on virtual machine. > > But the usage was changed as follows; > run a notebook server on a virtual machine > run browser on the virtual machine automatically. > > This usage is good > because browser will run automatically. > > But we cannot use Japanese language, > and we cannot use Japanese key layout (if we do nothing). > This seems a tall hurdle for Japanese beginners.
Wow, that's really terrible. I think we should change it back to letting the user use the native browser in Windows. To make it work maybe it's necessary for us to write a native Windows program to act as a manager for the virtual machine. This way we can still run the Windows browser automatically. But of course it may not be super easy to do this. Just an idea. By the way, it will not only help Japanese users if we use the native Windows browser. It will also help anyone who has a customized browser for whatever reason, for example users with screen reader software, Pentadactyl/Vimperator, etc. I think that's definitely the correct solution. I hope the rest of the Sage Days will go better. Sorry about this. -Keshav ---- Join us in #sagemath on irc.freenode.net ! -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
