Re: [tlug] Japanese character input for KDE

[Edward Davies <e_davies@example.com>]

Hi Josh,

Thanks for the reply.

>Urk. Have you checked out the archives (are they working today ;)?

They most not be working.  A search on "KDE" came back with nothing, which 
I thought was kinda odd.

>This is an oft asked and answered question on this list.
>
>The answer boils down to this: input in X is application-specific, not 
>global to a Window Manager.
>
>E.g. if I want to be able to input Japanese in Mozilla Mail, I do 
>something like:
>
>kinput2 -canna &
>LANG=ja_JP XMODIFIERS=@example.com=kinput2 mozilla -mail &
>
>Ya dig?

Uhh...kind of..I'm kind of a Linux Newbie.  Is that something I can just 
enter from the command line, or does it belong in a file somewhere?


At 11:29 2002/06/12 -0400, you wrote:
>Edward Davies wrote:
>>Hi All,
>>Is anyone out there using KDE?  I've got KDE up and runnning
>>under RedHat 7.2.  When I set the language option to Japanese,
>>all menus and everything are in Japanese, but I can't figure
>>out to enter Japanese from the keyboard.
>
>Urk. Have you checked out the archives (are they working today ;)? This is 
>an oft asked and answered question on this list.
>
>The answer boils down to this: input in X is application-specific, not 
>global to a Window Manager.
>
>E.g. if I want to be able to input Japanese in Mozilla Mail, I do 
>something like:
>
>kinput2 -canna &
>LANG=ja_JP XMODIFIERS=@example.com=kinput2 mozilla -mail &
>
>Ya dig?
>
>
>--
>Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>
>
>Associate Systems Administrator
>INCOGEN, Inc.