Don't know if this helps, but while trying to make Mandrake7.0 speak Korean I ran across this site. The guy is knee deep in internationalizing linux to speak Japanese.
http://tlug.linux.or.jp/craigoda/writings/linux-nihongo/ James PS to get some of the Korean working I "borrowed" heavily from a couple of Korean distro's (download source and compile locally) maybe that's the key here too. On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:57:45 +0900 "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps my situation is similar to yours. > > However the japanese support in mdk8.1 is broken, not only do none of > the kanji get displayed properly but kinput for wnn is not installed by > default! > > Playing with smome stuff can i got kinput working on english mandrake > with kterm, but not in Xwindows as a whole. > > Do you know of any HOWTOS on this issue? I am considering writing one, > as I can not find one. > > JG > > I cc this to the people listed by > > rpm -q kinput2-wnn4-v3.1-0.1mdk --changelog > > > > Chris Spackman wrote: > > > How badly do you need Japanese? Does it all have to be japanese, or do > > you just need to write the occasional japanese document? > > > > I gave up trying to get Mandrake to do all Japanese - but didn't try > > that hard, because I don't need menus in Japanese, I just need > > to occasionally read and write some email or a letter in Japanese. > > > > My solution to this was to switch to emacs. emacs can input / read / > > save Japanese just fine and with LaTeX and the CJK package, creating > > and printing documents is not a problem. Email can be done with emacs > > and gnus. > > > > If you need more than that - ie a completely japanese-language system, > > I am afraid I cannot help much. I had most of the same problems you > > are having. Red Hat makes a japanese version, but it isn't as good as > > mandrake. > > > > IMHO, Mandrake should consider a real Japanese version - they are much > > better than Red Hat on the desktop and Asia isn't nearly as entralled > > with MS as the States are. I could probably get my office to try > > Mandrake if it was in Japanese. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > >
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