Re: tlug: Kinput2, canna, kterm and locales

["Scott H. Perlman" <perlman@example.com>]

Ok, 

I'm starting with slackware, but it appears I'll be getting hte XIG
Xserver for the chipset on my notebook.

Anyone know if it includes teh sma elocale workaround, or locales.

Or anyone know how to begin constructing a locale support file?

-Scott

Klaus Kudielka wrote:
> 
> Chung Chiew Farn wrote:
> > Anybody has RH5 and didn't have the locale problem above?
> 
> * GLIBC locale support should work quite nicely --- IF you have the
>   locale support files AND don't forget to run localedef (to compile the
>   locale support files).
> * AFAIK, Japanese locale support files are non-existent :-((((
> * XF86 offers a workaround (Xlocale). Unfortunately, it has to be specified
>   at compile time. The XF86 default is "enabled" for libc5 and "disabled" for
>   glibc2 (since locale support is SUPPOSED to work).
> * I recompiled the XF86 SRPM to enable the Xlocale workaround. No problem
>   with kterm, kinput2 (XIM or kinput2 protocol), and Canna.
> * I still have the SRPM and the corresponding RPMs lying around. Anyone
>   interested?
> 
> I still have one minor problem: The Japanese fonts XEmacs 20.4 displays when in
> XIM mode (kinput2 -xim) are quite ugly. Does anyone know how to configure that
> one?
> 
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