Re: German umlauts in japanese RedHat 6.2 don't work

["Oliver M . Bolzer" <oliver@example.com>]

On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 01:33:55PM +0900 
Gerhard Schuck wrote:

> Hi,
  
> Can anybody give me any hints how to configure a japanese version of linux (in
> my case RedHat 6.2J) to support german special characters (umlauts) AND
> japanese input (kinput2). I can only get one of them working, depending on the
> LANG variable. If I define LANG as "de_DE", the japanese support doesn't work.
> If I define it "ja_JP" the german umlauts don't work for example in kedit
> (although I have selected "german" in the kde-International keybord support)
> and in cjk-lyx.

First, German Umlauts  won't be correctly shown in an Japanese capable
terminal like kterm, krxvt, kon2 ...

The only thing I can image trying is starting applications with different
locales as needed. For example, if you have default locale of Japanese and
want to use German in kedit, start kedit with
$LANG=de_DE kedit &

Unfortunatly, there is very little room for co-existence, as German umlauts
need the 8th-bit in an 8bit wide character, that is used to mark a character
as 16bit wide in eucJP. And Unicode is only a limited solution as there are
still a lot of problems with interaction with legacy codings.

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	Oliver M. Bolzer
	oliver@example.com


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