Re: Using Japanese (and Chinese) on an prodominantly english system

From: Rebecca Dridan (rdrid_at_dridan.com)
Date: 09/16/03

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    On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:55:40PM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote:
    > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 05:19:49PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote:
    <snip>
    > vim 6.1 should handle UTF-8 or EUC for Japanese.
    >
    > http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-tune.en.html#s-x-cjk

    Doh! bilingual should have been the obvious search term - why didn't I
    think of that!

    > > Probably not the best way, but how I do it:
    > >
    > > At a terminal:
    > > $export LANG=ja_JP.eucJP
    > > $export LC_MESSAGES=ja_JP.eucJP
    > He want English here for sure :)
    >
    > $export LC_MESSAGES=en_US.ISO-8859-1
    >
    > > $export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucJP
    > > $export XMODIFIERS=@im=kinput2
    > > $kinput2 -xim -kinput -canna &
    > > $kterm -xim <other desired options> &
    > >

    Thanks to all (particularly Travis and Osamu) I have part of the
    solution. I am using kinput2+canna in vim. Tried kterm and uxterm, but
    actually preferred mlterm and it is working well. I'd love to get it
    working with Eterm, but no luck so far.

    Next stage is mutt. At the moment I can write japanese emails, since I
    use vim as my editor, but I don't know if I am sending them correctly,
    and I can't read the japanese in the emails I send. It comes up as
    escape sequences thus: \272\243\306\374\244\317. I assume I need to work
    with the settings charset, send_charset and maybe allow_8bit? Setting
    charset to eucJP didn't seem to help. I believe I can have a list of
    charsets in send_charset. What do people recommend?

    I installed a backported mutt version 1.5.4 on my woody mail server as I
    read somewhere that multilingual support is only in version 1.4 and
    higher. Is that correct? Or do I need to install the backported
    mutt-utf8 as someone else told me, and change to a different encoding?

    For those who read Japanese (if it works):
    読めれば、お返事下さい。ありがとう。

    Thanks for the help so far. I will be documenting myy set-up once it's
    there for anyone interested. I'll let you know the URL when it's done.

    Bec 

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