[tlug] Japanese in Evolution

[Edward Middleton <edwardmiddleton@example.com>]

I am trying to get Japanese character display and input working in
evolution.  I started from an allready installed version of evolution
and have tried to compile all the evolution dependencies with
internationalization support.  I am running Gentoo 1.4 with

x11-base/xfree-4.2.1-r2        nls mmx truetype 3dnow
net-mail/evolution-1.2.1       nls doc spell
gnome-base/oaf-0.6.10	       nls
gnome-base/bonobo-1.0.21       nls
gnome-base/ORBit-0.5.17	       nls
gnome-base/libglade-0.17-r6    nls bonobo
gnome-base/gnome-print-0.35-r3 nls
gnome-extra/gtkhtml-1.1.7-r1   nls gnome
gnome-extra/gal-0.22	       nls alsa
app-i18n/canna-3.6-r1          nls 
app-i18n/kinput2-3.1           canna freewnn

fonts
x11-misc/kochi-fonts-0.2.20020503
x11-misc/x11fonts-jmk-3.0
x11-misc/shinonome-0.9.8
x11-misc/baekmuk-fonts-2.0-r1

I can get fonts by setting the gthml iso10646-1 font but most just
display a box or line of Japanese characters. Currently I am using

-misc-kochimincho-medium-r-normal--24-231-75-75-c-240-iso8859-1

for the "Fixed width" font.  This displays the Japanese characters well
but the english characters all apear double width.

kinput2 -canna &

XMODIFIERS="@example.com=kinput2" LANGUAGE=en_US LANG=ja_JP.eucJP
LC_ALL=ja_JP.eucJP evolution 

I get the following error message and I can't input kanji.

Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation
Gdk-WARNING **:     JISX0208.1983-0
Gdk-WARNING **:     JISX0201.1976-0

The japanese characters in the email headers are displayed as 
=?iso-2022-jp?B? some characters ?=

or as boxes. In my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 I have the following

Section "Files"
	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
	ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"

	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/shinonome/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/jmk/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/lfp-fix/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/lfp-var/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/korean/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "pex5"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "xie"
	Load  "xtrap"
	Load  "type1"
	Load  "speedo"
	Load  "freetype"
EndSection

In /etc/X11/XftConfig I have the 

dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"

which is the path for 
	kochi-mincho.ttf
	kochi-gothic.ttf
	arialuni.ttf

I also have x11-libs/xft-2.0.1 installed but I gather that isn't used by
evolution.  Any ideas on how to get this going would be greatly
appreciated.


-- 
Edward Middleton <edwardmiddleton@example.com>