Re: [tlug] debian japanese

[Shimpei Yamashita <shimpei@example.com>]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 04:50:43AM -0800,
Michael Moyle wrote:

> 
> > I agree that a good consolidated set of instructions for kinput2 and
> > Canna is really needed. I was used to it with Wnn, but its personality
> > changes according to the conversion engine, and with RH7.x canna is the
> > only one that seems to work.
> 
> I am saving this thread, and hope to put something together. One thing I
> noticed is that Kinput only works in Kterm, which someone noted that it
> (STILL) is not set up correctly. There are so many dot files and
> serreptitious nuances to this system, having no docs, is really, bad. 
> 
> It probably would have been faster to just install debian-JP. I was
> afraid that all the install menus are probably in Japanese. And I
> thought, oh the naivety, that it would be faster to 
> just install something.  

FWIW, most things Japanese worked correctly for me from the beginning
on Debian after I ran set-language-env from the command line. Fonts
and printing caused me headaches, but Linux font and printing are
basically headaches anyway, Japanese or no.

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Shimpei Yamashita                               http://www.shimpei.org/
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