Re: tlug: kanji input setup

[YAMAGATA Hiroo <hiyori13@example.com>]

At 12:27 00/05/21 +0900, you wrote:
>   I'm a long-time Linux user.  I have installed Red Hat 6.2 on my
>roommate's computer, who is interested in getting into web devlopment.
>She's doing quite well creating pages in English using KNotepad,
>Netscape, and the Gimp, but she would like to be able to write email and
>web page content in Kanji.  She has purchased a "Japanese keyboard" for
>this purpose.

The blue bird of happiness is never far away, for that kind of info, look 
no further than

http://www.tlug.gr.jp/craigoda/writings/linux-nihongo/

Now, you are experiencing trouble with the RPMs at linux.or.jp. My guess is 
that you are using the RPMs for libc5.  If she's using RH 6.2, you'll want 
to use stuff for glibc2 and later. Usually, packages with RH60 prefix or 
something falls into this category.

http://www.kondara.org/  may be a better source. They're all glibc2.

With your needs, I would say that you would want their rxvt or kterm 
package (console program capable of Japanese), kinput2, canna.

You will also need Japanese locales. Maybe they are at the Kondara 
site.  Get their glibc2.1.3 RPM package or they may have a separate 
japanese-locale package. Or, try http://www.linuxi18n.org/

After you have them and installed them, you'll have to do a bit of setting. 
But refer to Craig's page above for that.

As an editor, I'd suggest mgedit, also provided by the Kondara guys. There 
is a Japanized version of KEdit, but you'll have to gut out the whole KDE 
to do that, which is rather a drag.
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