Re: tlug: XIM

[Totoro <riley@example.com>]

On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Klaus Kudielka wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to get Japanese input on my RH 5.0 laptop. So far I have
[snip]

> Now I want to input Japanese into XEmacs 20.4. Canna support does not compile,
> so I chose XIM (should work with kterm & kinput2, too). Compiled and installed
> fine. But what now? I searched the XEmacs info and FAQ files for XIM. Nothing
> (only the sentence "I don't know about XIM").

Canna works, but you need to copy some includes. Make sure you have the
following in /usr/include/canna:

RK.h, jrkanji.h, keydef.h, mfdef.h

because that's where the compile looks for them. I have a symbolic link
that takes care of it.

[snip,too]

I find it works just fine. If you want to use Japanese in, say, GNUS,
then you need to install apel, mel and semi (in that order). The docs
say that you probably don't need them since they are part of XEmacs,
but I find that it works more cleanly to do this.

I'm not up on locale progress or XIM, but just plod along happily
with canna for now. 

BTW, the TLUG web site has some very helpful info on much of this.
Also, take a look at the PJE directories out on several of the mirror
sites. There is a handy rpm called smplusr that gives you a whole bunch
of sample files for .Xdefaults, .emacs, and all kinds of such. Quite handy
for tweaking your own setup.

David Riley

Hachinohe Institute of Technology
88-1, Myo, Ohbiraki
Hachinohe-shi Aomori-ken

http://w3.clat.hi-tech.ac.jp

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