[tlug] Japanese input

[marc@example.com]

hello,

i keep this old subject line because it seems appropriate ... 
i am back with some japanese input discovery - ??? but for me yes ! - 

after following the suggestions of this page : 

http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/jpninpt.html
- thank you very much for these details - 

and testing/playing on my KDE french-environment and US-keyboard,
i checked that i can open kmail with japanese input system (shift-space) from 
the KDE-bar-command_execute directly, using : 

langx kmail

where langx is : 
###########
#!/bin/bash
XMODIFIERS="@example.com=kinput2" LANGUAGE=en_US LC_CTYPE=ja_JP ${1+"$@"} &
###########

i mean : 
i don t need to open a special kterm window to specify the language, keyboard 
and so on, and then run kmail from that one. 
on the webpage, it is mentioned that this script _must_ be run under kterm ... 

so, do you have any comment for this ? 
i would be interested as i can learn a little more about linux environment 
variables and their applications ... 

sincerely,

Marc