Re: [tlug] Evolution and Japanese

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

Andy Hunne (andy@example.com) wrote:

> Apoligies if this question has been asked and answered previously,
> however I was unable to locate it in your archive.

I had this same problem, and based on help from several people, I
am using this little shell script to start Evolution:

#!/bin/sh
killev
oaf-slay
kinput2x -atok
LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.ujis LC_MESSAGES=en_US XMODIFIERS="@example.com=kinput2" evolution &

This gets me Evolution in English, but with Japanese display and input
working.

However, I gave up on Evolution because it encodes subject lines
in UTF-8 and there is no option to change this.  Since I'm not
really interested in having Japanese mail with mojibake subject lines,
I continue to use mutt, which is really the best MUA for a sysadmin
anyway.

Jonathan