tlug: Japanese menu bar for XEmacs?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Raimund" == Raimund Buellesbach <buellesb@example.com> writes:

    Raimund> Browsing through the directories of my XEmacs-20.4
    Raimund> distribution I encountered a file apparently intended to
    Raimund> provide Japanese text for the menu/toolbar
    Raimund> (xemacs-20.4/etc/app-defaults/ja/Emacs). I have moved
    Raimund> this file to ...X11/app-defaults/Emacs, as demanded by
    Raimund> the installation guide, yet instead of Japanese text,

Um, no, I don't think so.  (Where in the installation guide?  That's a
doc bug.)  That's an unsupported feature in 20.4 as far as I know.  It
worked in the last 20.4 I built, seems like years ago ;-).  The
app-defaults file was inherited from early work on 20.0.  To make it
work, IIRC you need to

(1) Build 20.4 after configuring --with-xfs.  You may get a warning
about incompatibility with --with-xim=<something>.  Ignore it.  To
find out what else you need, look at the file Installation.
(2) Set LANG=ja or any ja_... variant.
(3) Install XEmacs.  Try it without moving the ja app-defaults file;
    I'm not sure it was relevant to 20.4.  I believe the 20.4 Japanese 
    menus were built in Lisp.
(4) Start XEmacs.  Viólą.  <-- boy, do I love XEmacs.

To get Japanese startup splash frame, you need a file which lives in
lisp/locale/ja/.

More I can't say, I don't have anything so ancient as a 20.4 XEmacs
source tree available and TL's XEmacs-20.4 does not have the
capability built in.  Unfortunately the Japanese menu is currently
disabled in XEmacs 21.x because there have been mondo changes that
nobody's bothered to translate, and the old Japanese menu is
completely out of sync.  Volunteers are welcome.

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