tlug: XEmacs and Kanji detection

["C. Oda" <craig@example.com>]

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tlug note from "C. Oda" <craig@example.com>
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Hi,
during a recent switch from wnn-xemacs to canna-xemacs my xemacs
seems to have lost the ability to detect and display kanji codes
properly.

I can read the Japanese info files fine and I can read a text
file if I convert to euc with nkf.  However, I can't seem to
just open files at random and have it displayed properly.
Also, I can't go to sites like http://www.yahoo.co.jp and run
edict.el on it, my main purpose in using Japanese with XEmacs
right now.  I'm getting bakemoji.

I've tried the set-default-file-coding-system euc-japan, command
and it didn't help.

I've also added the following to my .Xresources

XEmacs*FontSet-14: -*-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-iso8859-1,\
        -*-fixed-medium-r-*--14-*-jisx0201.1976-*,\
        -*-fixed-medium-r-*--14-*-jisx0208.1983-*

XEmacs*FontSet-16: -*-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-*-iso8859-1,\
        -*-fixed-medium-r-*--16-*-jisx0201.1976-*,\
        -*-fixed-medium-r-*--16-*-jisx0208.1983-*

XEmacs*FontSet-24: -*-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-*-iso8859-1,\
        -*-fixed-medium-r-*--24-*-jisx0201.1976-*,\
        -*-fixed-medium-r-*--24-*-jisx0208.1983-*

I find this rather puzzling since I was using XEmacs with
Japanese support under w3.el fine a few
weeks ago before the great disk wipe of 1997.  

I'm sure this is due to my poor knowledge of how XEmacs
supports Japanese and interprets codes.  However, at this 
point, my main goal is just to be able to read the newspaper
and have the muzukashii kanji filtered through edict.el.


BTW, I got fetchmail to work again.  Evidently, the implementation
of IMAP is pretty rudimentary.  It doesn't detect the "read" flag
correctly.  If I specify "fetchall," it will get all my mail.  
This kind of reduces the advantages of using IMAP over POP, 
but at least I can start reading my mail again.  Now if I only
had the Japanese encoding detection of XEmacs working, I could
read my mail on the Debian-JP list, read my news in fj.os.linux,
suck the reference urls into a buffer, then access the reference
web sites with w3.el without ever touching that mouse.  :-)
Then, I can get the added bonus of accessing EDICT from within
any XEmacs application.  Nirvana awaits me.  I just have to
get it working.  ;-)

Regards,
Craig




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