Re: [tlug] Inputting both kanji and Latin-1?

[David Santinoli <u235@example.com>]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 01:16:32PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 
> Could you be a little more specific about why your application
> requires a "terminal window"?

Well, I wanted to stick to a simple and reasonably lightweight setup,
and running vim in a terminal window looked quite appealing.  
That's why I consider both (X)Emacs and gnome-terminal a bit of an
overkill.


> What you can do (I don't know if it works for your application,
> though) is run XEmacs (or GNU Emacs with the Canna patch[1], or maybe
> Canna-ized vim or kon).  Then start in a non-Japanese locale, and use
> compose processing for Latin-1, and Canna/Wnn/SJ3 for Japanese.

How do I know for sure whether my vim is Canna-ized or not?
I started the Canna server (but not kinput2), then fired up vim in a
Japanese locale and tried to input kanji the usual way (shift+space),
failing.  Does this imply that Canna support is absent, and that I need
to get the "Increase Your Vimhood" patch?


> Finally, with the XKBD extension (any reasonably modern XFree86), you
> should have access to "ISO Shift Levels".  Then you could define ISO
> Shift Level 2 or 3 to be the non-ASCII Latin characters.  You'd have
> to memorize where they are on the keyboard, though---it's not a
> compose- or deadkey-style input method, it's a direct reassignment of
> the keystroke to the character.

That's an interesting alternative.  Thanks for the tip.

You also suggested to have a look at mlterm, which I promptly did.
Although it does not seem to allow simultaneous input of the two
character families, it is possible to switch between the "kinput2" and
"none" (which permits Latin-1 composing) input methods via the
configuration window.  That's quite a considerable advance.

Thanks,
 David
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