Re: Nice multilingual environment with Debian menu

2003-12-16 Thread allomber
Osamu Aoki wrote: > 2. command are executed under "sh -c" to enable new environment, Menu documentation is not clear about how command are to be executed. I have made a study of the problem (http://people.debian.org/~ballombe/wmbugs, tes backquote). Part of the problem is that many window-manager

Re: Nice multilingual environment with Debian menu

2003-12-15 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > However, this does not work for asian input methods. Especially the > > asian IMs are the ones which depend on the locale. They shouldn't > > do it. > > That's why I suggest my way. I have one UXTerm for English which to > not activate IM. I can

Re: Nice multilingual environment with Debian menu

2003-12-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:24:54AM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote: > I suffer from the same problem, too. I'm using chinese, english and > german. However, the problem does not get fixed by changing the locale > all the time... this should not be done anyways. Yes. > IMHO the local setting should re

SCIM (was: Nice multilingual environment with Debian menu)

2003-12-14 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a quick suggestion: have you tried SCIM as an IM? http://www.turbolinux.com.cn/~suzhe/scim/ it supports CJK and Unicode. In fact you can use a UTF-8 locale, like en_US.UTF-8 and input any CJK char, plus unicode sequences into any unicode aware

Re: Nice multilingual environment with Debian menu

2003-12-14 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 13 December 2003 14:28, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:21:25PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 12:43, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > does this mean different input methods? > > Yes. > > Actually, uxterm under ja_JP.

Re: Nice multilingual environment with Debian menu

2003-12-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:21:25PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 12:43, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > * UTF-8 console with English locale > > * UTF-8 console with Japanese locale > > Why are these different? Try "man man", "ls -l" or "date", you get different answers. locale i

Re: Nice multilingual environment with Debian menu

2003-12-12 Thread Joe Drew
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 12:43, Osamu Aoki wrote: > * UTF-8 console with English locale > * UTF-8 console with Japanese locale Why are these different? It isn't really laid out in the document linked; does this mean different input methods? -- Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> J

Nice multilingual environment with Debian menu

2003-12-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, We all know how to set up localized environment through shell environment variables. There is even helper packages language-env. (Or KDE etc can be started with locale set by kdm.) But I never liked them since I get locked into a single locale. So how can we elegantly set multilingual envir