Re: tlug: Need info. about Japanese and Linux

[Fredric Fredricson <Fredric.Fredriksson@example.com>]

masatomo@example.com wrote:
> 
> Welcome to our list.
Thank You.
> 
> Fredric wrote:
> > Our machines run Linux and we think we need Japanese characters
> > on the screen to be competitive on the Japanese market.
>  Which package are you using? Slackware? Redhat? Debian?
>  If you use Debian-2.0, most of the software necessary to use
> Japanese are included.
>
We base our current release on RedHat 4.1. This will probably
change for next release.
The main problem is that we do not have a GUI. We use a character
based interface (for a lot of historical reasons). I realize that 
a GUI is probably required to get Japanese characters and this is
also a logical next step. The problem is, as always (sigh), 
resources.

I had an idea that maybe we could make a quick-and-dirty fix using
X and a kterm (or similar) and let the kterm cover the whole screen.
(The user won't even know X is involved). We have tested this before
with xterm (for other reasons than character set) and the only problem
was performance, but performance You can buy.

There may be a problem here. I understand kterm can display kanji
but most kanji texts I have seen seems to contain occasional 
characters of different types. If this is the case a pure kanji
interface may not be good enough. Could anybody enlighten me here?

/Fredric Fredricson
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