Re: Japanese input (was RE: tlug: Japanese)

["Jonathan Byrne" <jpmag@example.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull@example.com>

>    jb> For example, my computer at home has the English
version of
>    jb> Outlook Express, but it has absolutely no trouble
with reading
>    jb> Japanese or accepting Japanese input, with the
exception that
>    jb> it doesn't take Japanese input correctly in subject
lines.
>    jb> The localized version has no problem with that.
Overall, it's
>    jb> very nicely internationalized.
>
>For the user.  From the point of view of (some of) the
people who
>receive your mail, and the people who are forced to write
software to
>hide your broken mail from those who don't see it, Outlook
>Expectorates.  You've known I hold that opinion for a while
now.

And I'm sure you're right, too.  But I keep on using it
because the features it provides are so good that it's
pretty darn hard to give it up.  However, as inferior as
Netscape Mail is to OE, if Netscape would get their shit
together and make it Japanese-capable like it is on other
platforms, I'd use it.  I do often use the Japanese-hacked
version of Pine, and I will say that as a text-based mail
package, it's very impressive.  My only complaints in terms
of features are that it lacks nested folders, clickable URLs
(coming in Pine 4, though) and a nice, convenient rule
wizard to make up message sorting parameters.  But I haven't
dug into the docs yet to find out if it supports that one at
all; it may be expecting you to handle all of that with
procmail before the mail gets to Pine.

BTW, does the Sparc Solaris version of IE include Outlook
Express, and if it does, is the mail broken in the same way
that it is in the Windows version?


>God save us from Han Unification!  However, Stallman and
Handa are

I don't want Han unification, just Japanese input
unification under Linux :-)

>trying to arrange for exactly (the One True Input Method,
not Han
>Unification) that by ignoring all non-Quail input methods
in Mule.  I
>hope they fail.

Me too.  Maybe it's about time RMS just kind of, like,
retired, or something :-)

>The obvious name is "Japanese Input on Linux Terminals,"
because JILT
>is exactly what I would do to it, with quite high
probablility.


Why don't you join the campaign to world domination of
Japanese input instead? :-)  That way you could do loads to
make sure it worked exactly the way you wanted it to while
you dominated the world :-)

Cheers,

Jonathan

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