Re: tlug: Need info. about Japanese and Linux

[Uchida.Masatomo@example.com, <masatomo@example.com>]

Fredric wrote:
> We base our current release on RedHat 4.1. This will probably
> change for next release.
 You'd better hurry up. If you are using Redhat4.1 and relatively
old computer, you give a bad impression to Japanese customers.

> The main problem is that we do not have a GUI. We use a character
> based interface (for a lot of historical reasons). I realize that 
> a GUI is probably required to get Japanese characters and this is
> also a logical next step. 
 As Stephen told, Kon works to show Japanese characters without GUI.
But in Japanese companies 486 computers are considered garbage.
Who buys a garbage?

> There may be a problem here. I understand kterm can display kanji
> but most kanji texts I have seen seems to contain occasional 
> characters of different types. If this is the case a pure kanji
> interface may not be good enough. Could anybody enlighten me here?
 There are three codes in Japanese characters. They are JIS, SJIS and
EUC. To convert codes there's a converter called 'nkf'.
You can also try
 kterm -km euc
 kterm -km jis
 kterm -km sjis

Cheers,

Masa Uc^ida Masatomo,Hidaka,Saitama,Japanio

<http://www1.nisiq.net/~masatomo>
<http://www.hi-ho.ne.jp/linux>
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