Re: relevance of [PATCH] tty utf8 mode in linux-kernel 2.6.4-rc1

2004-03-08 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
this list right now, its refusing my ISP's email relay so I'm writing to you directly) Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: Why do you think Kanji support is somewhat "fancyful" while the real Linux kernel has been supporting Latin/Cyrillic/Arabic/Greek and UTF-8? Is it becau

Re: relevance of [PATCH] tty utf8 mode in linux-kernel 2.6.4-rc1

2004-03-02 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
must be kept. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: relevance of [PATCH] tty utf8 mode in linux-kernel 2.6.4-rc1

2004-03-01 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
- to calculate the cursor position on the console after processing a 0x08 (in your case; if a 0x08 moves one *cell* in any case, the calculation does not need wcwidth()) --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive

Re: Linux console internationalization

2003-08-14 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hi, From: Innocenti Maresin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux console internationalization Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 03:22:27 +0400 Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: Interesting, but any plan to support more than 512 characters? Not within VGA text modes. 2^9 is a hardware restriction based

Re: Linux console internationalization

2003-08-05 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
and adults should know much more.) And, how about fullwidth characters (i.e., return value of wcwidth() is 2) and combining characters (wcwidth() is 0), like xterm supports them? I am looking forward to linuxconsole project http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/ Do you know the project? --- Tomohiro KUBOTA

Re: gtk2

2003-04-02 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
.) Is it a priviledge of European-language-speaking people to say such preferences? It is what I wanted to call ethno-centrism. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

alias in fontconfig (Re: supporting XIM)

2003-03-31 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
algorithm. When I wrote this sentence, I thought about Text::Wrap() in Perl. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: gtk2 + japanese; gnome2 and keyboard layouts

2003-03-31 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
dictionary which a user tought many words and conversion order of homonyms is a valuable thing and changing input method may mean losing the data. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org

Re: gtk2 + japanese; gnome2 and keyboard layouts

2003-03-31 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
, kterm, rxvt, xterm, and KDE softwares. Especially, mule/emacs/xemacs is overwhelmingly popular among Japanese because it has been the only way to write Japanese in both of X and non-X environments for tens of years. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ -- Linux

Re: supporting XIM

2003-03-30 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
of CJK developers' time are wasted into this. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Pango tutorial? (Re: supporting XIM)

2003-03-30 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
for *all* softwares which displays some text. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: supporting XIM

2003-03-30 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
hope such people will hard-code UTF-8 support up to two bytes. Though I didn't find such softwares, I heard there are such softwares. We have to continue keeping watch on i18n implement of softwares How about em-dash or ligatures such as fi or ffl? Are they doublewidth? --- Tomohiro KUBOTA

Re: supporting XIM

2003-03-30 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
. It doesn't use whitespace between words, but line-breaking must be done at borders of words. It means that Thai dictionary is needed to achieve correct line- breaking for Thai. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels

Re: supporting XIM

2003-03-29 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
speakers and who think they should be discriminated. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: supporting XIM

2003-03-28 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
of areas where Open Source people cannot compete with commercial softwares by full-time developer teams. How about Korean? --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: supporting XIM

2003-03-26 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
found a Japanese-capable software!. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: supporting XIM

2003-03-25 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
--- that it is not easily compiled or very stable. Hiura, do you have any plans to provide easy-to-test .rpm and .deb packages of IIIMF- related softwares which might make users and developers become interested in IIIMF, want to study it, and want to develop IIIMF softwares? --- Tomohiro KUBOTA

Re: supporting XIM

2003-03-24 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
and features for CJK support. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: FYI: lamerpad

2003-03-24 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
, it could not show any Kanji candidates. Next, I couldn't check if it works as an XIM server and an XIM client can connect with it. Third, it could not use GNU Unifont properly. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels

Re: FYI: lamerpad

2003-03-24 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
insist supporting Unicode which cannot handle bidi, combining, doublewidth, more than two or three bytes UTF-8 character, multiple fonts for multiple scripts, and so on. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive

Re: supporting XIM

2003-03-24 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
. There are many input methods with various various ideas and user interfaces algorithms by input method developers. Input method protocols must be as extensible as possible to allow input method developers to realize their ideas. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota

FYI: lamerpad

2003-03-11 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
supporting CJK languages. Note that I have not tested Lamerpad yet. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Pango tutorial?

2003-02-25 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
as a basis of other high-level rendering engines. Thus, the main developer of xplanet and I are searching a good text rendering engine and interested in Pango. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http

Re: How to read mail with #nnnn

2002-11-18 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Roman#7871;n Hoa th#7883;nh = #272;#7889;n th#432;#7901;ng #273;#7871;n nh=E0/FONT ch=FAng = t=F4i=20 Most of modern HTML rendering engines can decode it. Thus, you can read it with Mozilla and so on. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N

Re: Linux Console in UTF-8 - current state

2002-09-29 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
*shoud not* support italics and bolds. I just pointed italics and bolds will have lower priority. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive

Re: Linux Console in UTF-8 - current state

2002-09-29 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
space and saying this code space is needed, that is optional. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: Linux and UTF8 filenames

2002-09-20 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
whitespace to separate words.) --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: Linux and UTF8 filenames

2002-09-19 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
, I don't know any alternatives which can input Chinese and Japanese. I agree that UTF-16 is a bad choice but it is not fatal, while no possibilites of support for Chinese and Japanese (any keymap-like approach can never support these languages) is fatal. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Perl 5.8 with significantly improved UTF-8 support is out

2002-07-23 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
softwares should be able to do this.) Many softwares should be rewrote using internationalized widget libraries such as Pango to support complex languages. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n

XTerm patch to call luit (2)

2002-06-12 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
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Re: [I18n][call for comments] XTerm patch to invoke luit

2002-06-07 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
think hard-coding of th and vi is a good way so far. And also, I heard that systems without locale (with X_LOCALE) do not have MB_CUR_MAX. If it is true, we also have to have a fallback for this. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http

[call for comments] XTerm patch to invoke luit

2002-06-06 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
M+(HH-$6;8HNB0]EV':WH@+6J%NJ$#ZR22MDZ('0:D,A(N]U)LHT^R,9B.: MC6@VHMF(9B.ZXPBPG:X$?*VN]KJ;.%`;7CO]2JU_(5LI3QF.^`SURC;3=0K M:[\\Y%,DL=1-4:C)IDC/AVZKWK'YJPVUXR824/FO5U=1T,AZ0Q3@!\WL?C MY',XQ-7;!IH??R+6['5Z#_7M-%=Z\%6$W;F8FOF)OLL05;*NTG7XPSF 0_IJDQ36]07W(1.9J$` ` end --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL

Re: [I18n][call for comments] XTerm patch to invoke luit

2002-06-06 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
like to use 3. UTF-8 with luit behavior. Do you have any idea to include 8bit encodings which need special processings such as combining? --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8

Re: ASCII and JIS X 0201 Roman - the backslash problem

2002-05-12 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
and huge costs. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: ASCII and JIS X 0201 Roman - the backslash problem

2002-05-12 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
is changed, then input method should be modified as a matter of course. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: ASCII and JIS X 0201 Roman - the backslash problem

2002-05-12 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
ode itself is not yet very popular in Japan. However, full-width Yen in Shift_JIS and EUC-JP, i.e., 0x216F in JIS X 0208, is widely used in Japan. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -

Re: Switching to UTF-8

2002-05-06 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
strokes of n-y-a should give HIRAGANA/KATAKANA LETTER NI and following HIRAGANA/KATAKANA LETTER SMALL YA.) Anyway, I understand your point that Latin - Hiragana/Katakana cannot be implemented as xkb. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http

Re: Switching to UTF-8

2002-05-05 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
be implemented as xkb. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: Switching to UTF-8

2002-05-05 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
, it should represent one Hangul syllable c-v-c. However, when I hit the next v, it should be two Hangul syllables of c-v c-v. In Hiragana/Katakana, processing of n is complex (though it may be less complex than Hangul). --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota

Re: Switching to UTF-8

2002-05-02 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
of 'two-set keyboard' and can live without Hanjas. I have to know more about Xkb to be certain, though. I see. This is not true for Japanese. Japanese people do need grammar and context analysis software to get Kanji text. How about Chinese? --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Switching to UTF-8

2002-05-01 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
people don't have to care about these terms, other peole can easily believe a UTF-8-supported software and then disappointed to use it. Then he/she will become distrust UTF-8-supported softwares. We should avoid many people will become such. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Switching to UTF-8

2002-05-01 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
(-*-times-*) cannot display Japanese because there are no Japanese fonts which meet the name. (Instead, mincho and gothic are popular Japanese typefaces.) Such types of implementation is often seen in window managers and their theme files. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Renewed my Unicode/JIS page

2002-04-07 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
between Unicode and east Asian encodings. I also mentioned VARIATION SELECTORS which is introduced in Unicode 3.2 . Please read and check it. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8

Re: 3.2 MAPPINGS/EASTASIA

2002-04-04 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
will be OK. I'll make use of these 59 compatibility ideographs in the converter. That's the whole reason why they were introduced in Unicode 3.2. Right. The problem is, there are no official mapping tables which use them yet. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota

Re: 3.2 MAPPINGS/EASTASIA

2002-04-02 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
of compatibility ideographs which are different characters in JIS X 0213's point of view and different glyphs of the same character in Unicode's point of view.) --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n

sorting order of Kanji

2002-02-25 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
, it will need a large dictionary). I don't know about Chinese. Thus, strcoll() simply works as strcmp(). --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all leve

Re: Variation selectors for narrow/wide EastAsian glyphs

2002-02-04 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
ESC sequences. The a font could easily contain both narrow (CP437) and wide (JIS) versions of the U+25xx box drawing characters, etc. I don't think introduction of new 'character' is better than introduction of new ESC sequences. I think they are equivalent. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED

Li18nux Locale Name Guideline Public Review

2002-01-21 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hi, I found the 2nd public review of Li18nux Locale Name Guideline has started. http://www.hauN.org/ml/b-l-j/a/800/840.html http://www.li18nux.org/subgroups/sa/locnameguide/index.html The page says that comments are welcome until 14 Feb 2002. Any additions from Li18nux insiders? --- Tomohiro

Re: [I18n]Li18nux Locale Name Guideline Public Review

2002-01-21 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hi, At Mon, 21 Jan 2002 19:18:09 +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: I found the 2nd public review of Li18nux Locale Name Guideline has started. http://www.hauN.org/ml/b-l-j/a/800/840.html http://www.li18nux.org/subgroups/sa/locnameguide/index.html One important note. I am not a member

Re: Unicode, character ambiguities

2002-01-13 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
additional characters. Thus, it is wrong to say that This is a problem of CP932, and Unicode is not responsible. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels

Re: Unicode, character ambiguities

2002-01-12 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
are same characters and thus the distinction of Han Variants will be achieved using change of fonts and glyphs _technically_. For example, do you think good (english word) and guten (german word) is a same word or different word? Han Variants are like that. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Unicode, character ambiguities

2002-01-12 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
pixel fonts which we often use with X Window System. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: Unicode, character ambiguities

2002-01-11 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
using simple algorithm. On the other hand, the meaning of \ depends on context and, ultimately, only the writer of the \ knows whether it should be U+005C or U+00A5. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals

Re: Unicode, character ambiguities

2002-01-11 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
solution. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: Unicode, character ambiguities

2002-01-10 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
ph rather than the reference glyph. My system also shows both of U+9234 and U+FB91 like U+FB91 image. --- 久保田智広 Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: Unicode, character ambiguities

2002-01-10 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
much more differences to other tables, I will welcome it if it can finish this confusing situation. See a chapter of Conversion tables differ between venders in http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/unicode-symbols.html for detail. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota

Re: Unicode, character ambiguities

2002-01-10 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
had to add that one example may mean hundreds of characters, because one radical may be shared by hundreds of characters. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all

Re: Unicode, character ambiguities

2002-01-09 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
at the average Japanese. I am rather a Unicode lover than average Japanese people. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http

Re: Unicode, character ambiguities

2002-01-09 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
some more Kanji characters than average Japanese people. However, my job is not related to computer, publication, typesetting, nor literature. My knowledge on Kanji may be lower than people with such jobs. I did introduced all which may bias my opinion or feelings. And you? --- Tomohiro KUBOTA

Re: Unicode, character ambiguities

2002-01-09 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Unicode 3.2 Beta

2002-01-08 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
whether Variation Selectors can be used for CJK Han Variants. (I sent a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] a few days ago but I have not received a reply yet.) --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux

Re: Unicode, character ambiguities

2002-01-08 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
that the internal encoding may be Unicode, but stream I/O encoding has to be specified by LC_CTYPE locale. This is mandatory for internationalized softwares. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8

Re: A nl_langinfo(CODESET) emulator for FreeBSD and other legacy platforms

2001-12-26 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
cannot suggest a concrete sample implementation. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: Emacs and UTf8 locale

2001-12-25 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
encodings can be locale-dependent.) and the default output encoding is UTF-8. Input method depends on language, not encoding. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all

Re: Two questions about console utf8 support

2001-12-25 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
will be more happier if the API is standardized and we can use same conversion engine for all of Linux, BSD, and other UNIX-like systems. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n

Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale

2001-12-18 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
UTF-8 mode but also for detecting other encodings such as ISO-8859-*, KOI8-*, EUC-*, TIS-620, Big5, and so on. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels

Re: Yudit and XIM

2001-12-16 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
from the menu. Concretely speaking, Yudit should have skkinput, kinput2, xcin (traditional Chinese), xcin (simplified Chinese), ami, htt, and so on. Of course I think the _initial_ input method can be chosen by following the standard configuration for all XIM-supported softwares. --- Tomohiro

Re: Yudit and XIM

2001-12-13 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
in the world. Please test mlterm (http://mlterm.sourceforge.net) which can dynamically change XIM servers by using this method. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all

Re: StarWars

2001-12-13 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
, this is already UTF-8, though only a small subset of U+0020 - U+007e seems to be used. :-) --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http

Re: diacritics in xterm

2001-12-12 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
months, in both UTF-8 and ISO-8859-2 locales and so far have no problems at all. Please be sure that the fix does not disable multibyte character input. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux

Re: input method for Japanese

2001-12-09 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
conversion engine). All of them support XIM protocol while only kinput2 supports kinput2 protocol. Moreover, there are Korean and Chinese XIM servers such as Ami and XCIN. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals

mlterm mailing list is now opened

2001-11-29 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
of you will be interested in joining the English mailing list. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: /efont/ and xterm (Re: UTF-8 Terminals)

2001-11-16 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
? --- 久保田智広 Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: UTF-8 Terminals

2001-11-12 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
has 10, 12, 14, 16, and 24 pixels Unicode fonts ? The web page has a table of subsets these fonts cover. Though I am not taking part in the project, I hope thse fonts will be used widely like ETL intlfonts. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N

Re: [I18n]Call for testers: luit in XFree86 CVS

2001-11-12 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
iles do. No. Though JIS X 0213 is an extension to JIS X 0208, JIS X 0213 itself includes all JIS X 0208 characters. Thus, JIS X 0213 is intended to be a replacement of JIS X 0208. Please check the literatures above for detail. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~k

Re: [I18n]Call for testers: luit in XFree86 CVS

2001-11-12 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
? 12 November 2001 Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh, sorry! This is a mistake. (The last modification on 12 November 2001 was related to the change of unicode charts site.) --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org

Re: [I18n]Call for testers: luit in XFree86 CVS

2001-11-12 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
will single shifts only, we can have more simple sequence. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: UTF8 Terminal Detection

2001-11-12 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
is not reliable, though this has been a real daily need for us for long years. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux

Re: Locales and Emacs 21

2001-10-23 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
System could not display non-ISO-8859-1 characters without some settings in ~/.emacs or ~/.Xresources (these characters were displayed by white box). This is caused by improper default font configuration. Is this problem fixed in Emacs21 ? --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Vim 6.0 has been released (debian info)

2001-10-04 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
is completely useless without locale support for CJK people, while it means that 8bit-language people merely cannot use UTF-8 mode and they can use legacy encodings. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n

Re: Vim 6.0 has been released (debian info)

2001-10-04 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
-speaking people also canoot live with Vim 6.0 without locale support. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux

Re: Unicode support under Linux

2001-10-03 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
on wchar_t functions is available at my document available from my signature at the bottom of this mail. Note that wchar_t is not always UTF-32, though it is always true in GNU libc. If you have to write portable software, you must not assume wchar_t is UTF-32. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

EastAsianWidth revised

2001-09-08 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Cross Mapping Tables (Re: EastAsianWidth revised)

2001-09-08 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
(), in case people found that so far actually useful. It contains a new table of EastAsianWidth Ambiguous characters. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/wcwidth.c Thanks. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc

Re: How to use Unicode

2001-08-31 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
variable, he/she should not need any more specification of language and encoding. This is a (part of) idea of locale. XTerm started to support locale partially - only UTF-8 locales. Further improvement will be discussed. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota

Re: Backspace problem in Xterm/rxvt

2001-08-13 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
in Japan now, aren't you? Then you can try Japanese version of MS-DOS, Tera Term, telnet included in MS-Windows, NCSA telnet, rxvt, eterm, aterm, wterm, and so on. I think you cannot find any column-oriented terminal which moves cursor in two columns for one output of 0x08 code. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA

Re: Vim 6.0 now in beta test

2001-08-06 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
: []} - } means garbage half of dotted box character. [] is right character. ~ --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: Vim 6.0 now in beta test

2001-08-05 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
of CD-ROMs: I tried and I found a bug. In UTF-8 locale, When I input a doublewidth character (for example, hiragana) at the end of a line and hit ESC key, the cursor moves toward left by only one column. It should be two columns. This bug does not occur in EUC-JP locale. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA

Re: Backspace problem in Xterm/rxvt

2001-08-05 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
--- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: New Unifont release

2001-07-11 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
, introducing another scheme as a recommended default way is not a good idea. More and more new knowledge is needed, less and less software will be internationalized. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n

Re: Arabic (was Re: [I18n]Syriac)

2001-07-05 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
to include them to Unicode? --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: Luit and screen [was: anti-luit]

2001-07-04 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
is to guard itself legally. Dual license will not help this situation. OTOH, GPL-ed softwares cannot be included in XFree86 source tree, as Juliusz said. Thus, I think Juliusz's way (luit in X11 license) is reasonable. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota

Re: Locking Linux console to UTF-8

2001-07-03 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
and jfbterm. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: Emacs and nl_langinfo(CODESET)

2001-06-30 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
() approach cannot. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: Emacs and nl_langinfo(CODESET)

2001-06-30 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
intension also from your mails to mailing lists. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: Locking Linux console to UTF-8

2001-06-29 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
), kon does not (and works with older Linux kernel). [According to the changelog file of kon, the first test release was 1992-10-13, obviously when framebuffer was not available.] However, I don't know whether Unicode can be implemented without framebuffer. Just an information. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA

Re: file name encoding

2001-06-27 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
to people who don't use UTF-8 locales. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: file name encoding

2001-06-26 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
.) --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Re: file name encoding

2001-06-26 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
for detail. xc/programs/twm/twm.c loc = setlocale(LC_ALL, ); if (!loc || !strcmp(loc, C) || !strcmp(loc, POSIX) || !XSupportsLocale()) { use_fontset = False; } else { use_fontset = True; } --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota

Re: file name encoding

2001-06-26 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
locale when they communicate with users. For example, 'ls' must display file names in locale encoding. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ Introduction to I18N http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive

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