Re: tlug: Japanese at Trinity

[yhua@example.com (Yong-Ming Hua)]

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Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 19:21:56 +0900
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Dear Scott and Stephen,

     Thanks so much for your advices. About cannna client,
yep, my mistake. I meant cannaserver. I came to this idea
caz my uni(at different section) is offering Slaris with
Cannaserver and Mule-19.28. My confusion is my friend at
Trinity is not a Unix user as such. Just email using English.
And that pine. So I just check what both of you commented
and tell my friend what to do, or what to say to the system
administrator. I seem to guess that Unix, be it Solaris or
BSD, HAS Japanese fonts as default. 

P.S. Perhaps, the best and quickest way for my friend there
     is to walk into the Japanese Language centre and ask
     them to use their PC. hehehe. Or I just tell him to use
     Linux!(maybe this is the best of all.)

But, thanks very much for your kind advices. I appreciate
them very much.

Yours,
Yong-Ming Hua

Thank you for your email dated Thu, 2 Apr 1998 17:47:12 +0900 (JST) 
Mr/Ms Scott Stone wrote with the subject:Re: tlug: Japanese at Trinity
>On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>> >>>>> "Yong-Ming" == Yong-Ming Hua <yhua@example.com> writes:
>> 
>>     Y-M>      One of my friends is at Trinity, Oxford. His environment
>>     Y-M> is Unix based. No Japanese at all.OS is solaris and BSD.  He
>>     Y-M> wants to use Unix to read Japanese mails sent from Japan.
>> 
>> And write, I assume.
>> 
>>     Y-M> 1. download
>>     Y-M>   a. kterm
>>     Y-M>   b. canna(both server and client)
>> 
>> No such thing as a canna client as such, but you might want to get
>> kinput2.
>> 
>>     Y-M>   c. mule
>> 
>> If you want to use Canna with Mule, it has to be XEmacs or an old
>> version of FSF Emacs (19.34b with Mule compiled in).  FSFmacs 20.x
>> supports neither Canna nor Wnn from what I've heard, only Quail.  I
>> believe third parties have done the patches for like Debian-JP Linux
>> and PJE, but the vanilla FSF version won't work.
>
>the TurboLinux mule (based on 19.28 in 1.0, 19.34 in 1.4) works with Canna
>or Wnn6.  The one in 1.4J also works with skk.  You could get our .src.rpm
>and rebuild it on solaris from the .tar.gz (ie, use rpm2cpio to extract
>the .tar.gz and patch files from the .src.rpm).  It's had a lot of
>extensive work done on it to make it work properly with all three feps.
>
>> 
>> I will have to check this out myself; I don't know for sure.  But it's 
>> worth checking.
>> 
>>     Y-M> 2. make them.
>> 
>> You should be able to get prebuilt binaries for Solaris and most *BSD
>> platforms for FSFmacs and definitely XEmacs, probably for the others.
>> Certainly for FreeBSD as well.
>> 
>>     Y-M> 3. write .emacs
>>     Y-M>    set .Xresources for Japanse Fonts.
>> 
>> Optional.  It's much prettier if you get those right, though.
>> 
>>     Y-M> 4. If xlsfonts doesn't have any luck, download basic
>>     Y-M>    Japanese fonts and put them into proper directory
>>     Y-M>    or any directory and write so in .Xresources.
>> 
>> Not .Xresources; you need to run `mkfontdir' in the proper directory.
>> To find out what the proper directories are, run `xset fp'.  Then you
>> probably have to do `xset -fp rehash' if X is already running.
>> 
>> HTH
>> 

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