Mozilla 0.8 and Japanese input

[Ian Barwick <ianb@example.com>]

Hi,

<delurk>

A long-time lurker writes:

as a former and hopefully sometime future resident of Tokyo[*], and as a
current, very intensive user of Linux I've been reading the TLUG list for
a couple of years (and very informative it's been too). 

</delurk>

And my question is:

Can anyone tell me how to get Japanese input working with the 0.x versions
of Mozilla?

I have canna + kinput2 running quite happily with kterm under SuSE-Linux,
and Mozilla 0.8 working with the Japanese language extensions [1] (menus
etc. in Japanese). Setting LANG to ja, ja_JP etc. (as suggested
here: http://www.tlug.gr.jp/ML/0008/msg00146.html )
doesn't have any effect. I vaguely recall having no problems with an
earlier Mozilla build (M14/15??), but unfortunately have forgotten what
environment I was using at the time.

A fairly extensive web-search failed to provide any answers, not even on
the Japanese mozilla page ( http://www.mozilla.gr.jp ) (although I may
have been looking in all the wrong places...)

Any advice gratefully accepted.


Ian Barwick
ian@example.com (-> personal mail)
ianb@example.com (-> mailing lists)

[1] Available here: http://www.mozilla.gr.jp/jlp/#official 
[*] A bit of bio if anyone's interested: currently resident in Berlin,
Germany; work for a smallish ASP doing things to webservers (Linux and 
Sun) and databases (Oracle, MySQL) with Perl, mod_perl and anything else
that comes to hand; also work with East Asian character sets. Brought
up on CP/M, cannot imagine a world without vi, but also like KDE2.