tlug: setting up RH6.1 with Japanese

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "James" == James Calver <jcalver@example.com> writes:

    James>     Well, I've finally had some time to poke around with
    James> Linux again.  So I'm back at trying to get Japanese support
    James> up and running.  I have installed Kinput2, Kterm and Canna.
    James> Kterm can display Japanese, but how do I know if Kinput2
    James> and Canna are working?  Are there any docs/howto's for
    James> them?

Hit Shift-SPACE, and type some romaji.  If you get hiragana, you're
gold.  If not, hit Ctrl-Mouse-3 in the kterm, and try Start Input
Method or some such.  If still no luck, try `kterm -xim &' and try
again in the new kterm.  If still no luck, fdisk and install Debian.

Docs?  Bu-wha-ha-ha-ha! You want docs?!??  We'll give you docs....

Try the man pages.  They're not bad, really.  KTerm's is long: use a
really tall *term to read them efficiently.

    James>     Also, do they need another program to do anything?
    James> Like Mule or NEamcs?

Anything that displays kanji and speaks xim will do.  kterm, XEmacs,
beta xterms if I heard correctly.  GNU Emacs may or may not work, and
it's unsupported (GNU projects take the NO WARRANTY part of the GPL
almost as seriously as they take the NO Qt part).

XEmacs will probably speak Canna natively, and most distros supply the
dl-GNU Emacs, for which you can get a .so that speaks Canna.
Unsupported, of course.

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