[OT] Japanese

2003-06-16 Thread Nicholas G. Thornton
I ask only because it came up here before and I can find nothing online about it... I'm trying to do some things in japanese on my OSX box, unfortuanately my japanese isn't terribly good so any help info on my computer is minimally helpful. My biggest question is how to get garbled text like

Installing 5.8.0

2003-06-16 Thread Lorin Rivers
I have gotten into a situation where I had to reinstall Mac OS X from scratch (bad drive, months of ignorant marketeer meddling). I have the standard Mac OS X 10.2 install. I don't use fink, I do use darwinports. What is the best, simplest, and easiest approach to having a rock solid,

Re: Installing 5.8.0

2003-06-16 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 10:54 PM, Lorin Rivers wrote: What is the best, simplest, and easiest approach to having a rock solid, reasonably standard perl setup? You should seriously consider simply using the pre-installed setup unless you have a specific reason not to. The out-of-the-box

Re: [OT] Japanese

2003-06-16 Thread Joel Rees
I ask only because it came up here before and I can find nothing online about it... I'm trying to do some things in japanese on my OSX box, unfortuanately my japanese isn't terribly good so any help info on my computer is minimally helpful. My biggest question is how to get garbled text

Re: [OT] Japanese

2003-06-16 Thread David Ackerman
On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 11:39 PM, Joel Rees wrote: My next question is where there's a good online FAQ site for doing japanese on OSX or finding OSX programs that accept Japenese (unicode?). I type in Japanese in textedit, mail and project builder without difficulty. Have you set the

Re: [OT] Japanese

2003-06-16 Thread Ward W. Vuillemot
Japanese and Mac OS Xawesome. Yes; I am biased. Can you tell us how you got the garbled text? It looks like if you switch the encoding, as suggested, that you might get things into something resembling Japanese. As for Mac OS X supporting Japanese. I presume you have checked the system

Re: [OT] Japanese

2003-06-16 Thread Joel Rees
I type in Japanese in textedit, mail and project builder without difficulty. I find I've had to fuss a bit with Project Builder's editor. Most of the docs, source, etc., I see are encoded in shift-JIS, but I haven't yet found a way to tell the PB editor what encoding to assume when opening a

Re: [OT] Japanese

2003-06-16 Thread Ward W. Vuillemot
But I can tell Text Edit what encoding to assume and then save as UTF-8 or UTF-16, so there's a work-around. Unfortunately, that's not going to help the OP, near as I can tell. Do you recognize his deg.TMGDBdeg.$D9$BBdeg.$D9deg.$E9deg.$D9-$DA$F5? Editors I use a lot. Jedit, Java editor.