Re: [tlug] Japanese Encoding / 9.1-9.3 Upgrade

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

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On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 09:50:04AM +0900, Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon wrote:
> Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon wrote:
> 
> >Steve Smith wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >It's working in the handful of things I've tried it with - Mozilla,
> >OpnOf, a text editor.....
> 
> 
> I need to warn you about something.  Regarding Japanese input working on 
> OpnOf, while it's working fine on the computer I did a new install on in 
> Japanese, it's not working on the machine I upgrade installed English 
> (with Japanese support).  Japanese input works fine within Mozilla, but 
> not in OpenOffice.  The floating box (what's that called anyway?) comes 
> up and it seems to be running Japanese, but it only appears within 
> OpenOffice as little boxes.  In fact, it's not an input problem, because 
> a file with Japanese that opens with no problem with OpenOffice on the 
> Japanese install version of SuSE 9.3 also produces boxes when opened on 
> the English install (with Japanese support) version.  I haven't tried 
> it, but I suspect that Japanese text blindly entered into as those 
> little boxes would probably open as Japanese on the Japanese box......
> 

I haven't been following this thread.  However, in older versions of OO
(the 1.x versions) I would get the little boxes as I entered, but
hitting enter would get me the characters. 

I use kinput2 and canna.   A few obvious things (and my apologies if
this has already been covered).  In Options be sure to enable Asian
Language support and choose Japanese as the language.  I start open
office with a script that reads

XMODIFIERS="@example.com=kinput2" LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucJP ${1+"$@"} &.

(The ${1 and such is simply the variable--I call the script langx so in
this case it's langx openoffice).  Anyway, I cover all this in detail on
my Japanese in *nix page, but I just wonder if you have perhaps
forgotten to set LC_CTYPE.

Sometimes too, you have to set LANG, or make it LC_ALL etc--there are
various combinations that work differently in different distros with
different apps.  
(Note that is for FreeBSD.  The ja_JP line tends to vary with each
distribution, e.g Debian uses ja_JP-EUC-JP, etc.) 

> 
> Mainly I'm just happy that I can finally input Japanese in e-mail, but I 
> got a rare MS file yesterday that I needed to work on and I had to fire 
> up a second machine to work on it.

The latest versions of OpenOffice are not only handling Japanese MS word
but even Japanese Mac Word, which it didn't do until relatively recently.


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