Re: tlug: Japanese

[craigoda@example.com]

From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>
Subject: tlug: Japanese
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 18:11:15 +0900 (JST)

turnbull> >>>>> "Eric" == Eric Standlee and Family <e-w.standlee@example.com> writes:
turnbull> 
turnbull>     Eric> If I just do the Mule/fonts install is that all I need for
turnbull>     Eric> Japanese?  Or should I go the entire <distribution>-JP way?
turnbull>     Eric> I just want the ability to read and write in Japanese, not
turnbull>     Eric> necessarily have all of my menus and things in Japanese...
turnbull> 
turnbull> No, you need printing too, right?  If just electronic text is enough,
turnbull> mule is all you need.
turnbull> 
turnbull> There are no working programs to print out of a released Emacs,
turnbull> unfortunately; there's a beta "ps-print.el" that works with Emacs
turnbull> 20.2.93 or so, and possibly with XEmacs 21, but ....
turnbull> 
turnbull> If you want pretty docs, you probably need pTeX and the rest; and
turnbull> Ghostscript with VFlib.  There are some text file filters and
turnbull> Dp-note, a shareware Japanese wordprocessor too.

Also, if you want to input Japanese, you have to install a henkan server
and dictionaries, either Wnn or Canna is the standard.  Although, there are
some elisp-only packages for Emacs.  I think it's called skk.  There might
be others if you just want really simple input.  If you choose the Wnn or
Canna route, you need to get the mule binary with Wnn or Canna support
compiled into it.  Alternately, you may want to install kinput2. 

Regards,
Craig

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