Re: [tlug] Evolution and Japanese

[Andy Hunne <andy@example.com>]

Thanks for the suggestion Jonathan, I will give it a try - all I want to
be able to do is read Japanese email in evolution so this may do it for
me.

Regards,

Andy Hunne

On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 12:34, Jonathan Byrne wrote:
> 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
> 
>