Re: [tlug] KMail and kinput2

[Anders Jansson <nbn742d@example.com>]

Sam Tilders wrote:

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>
>Basically, I'd like to be able to choose easily between typing in english or 
>japanese into KMail.
>
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I had the exact same problem a few weeks ago. To my understanding, you 
won't succeed with Kmail. The key to success is something called XIM (X 
input method), and it is only a few applications that uses XIM. kterm is 
one of them, whereas the KDE konsole does not use it. Xemacs uses it as 
well. As for mail tool, kmail doesn't use it, but Mozilla does. I 
switched from kmail (and konqueror) to mozilla and now both I read and 
write japanese mails.

I can recommend the page:
http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/suse-cjk.html

which very well describes this.

This is an excerpt from this page:

XIM (= X Input Method) is a generic API to build applictions which have 
support for international input.

All applications which have support for the XIM-protocol build in, can 
be used to input Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

Many X11 applications already support XIM, for example:

    * most KDE 2 and most Gnome applications
    * Browsers like Mozilla, Netscape, Konqueror
    * Editors like Emacs, XEmacs, gvim
    * terminals like kterm and rxvt
    * Java applications

As you can see, kmail is not listed here.

So, my suggestion is, change mail tool to Mozilla. Before you start 
Mozilla, set environment variable LANG to ja_JP:

export LANG=ja_JP; mozilla &

since you have been succesful with kterm and kinput2, I think this is 
all you need to do.

Cheers
Anders