May 2002 - openSUSE M17n - openSUSE Mailing Lists

usage of kinput2 and canna
by Bernhard Rulla 17 May '02

17 May '02

Dear friends, I need some kind hints about how to use kinput2 and canna. Situation: 1) I installed canna 2) I installed kinput2 3) I entered the command export XMODIFIERS="@im=kinput2" 4) I entered the command LANG=ja_JP kinput2 -xim -kinput -canna & 5) I started my e-mail program KMail 6) I want to write a Japanese e-mail and use Shift-Space... but nothing happens, except that I entered a space. What am I missing? Where need I to do what additional step? I appreciate your direct answers. Sincerely yours, Bernhard Rulla -------------------------------------------------------

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UTF-8 LaTeX and Chinese with GNU Emacs
by Friedrich Dimmling 17 May '02

17 May '02

Hello, I tried to use mule-ucs with GNU Emacs from SuSE 8.0 (21.1.1) to prepare a LaTeX file containing Chinese (simplified, mule input mode chinese-py) characters together with German umlaut characters, using the ucs.sty. Everything seems to work fine. However when I load the .tex file (containing the -*- coding utf-8 -*- line) a second time into GNU Emcacs, part of the characters is taken from the jiantizi font (rather bold face), part of the characters is taken from the fantizi font (rather slim chars) and some characters are just empty boxes, as if there is no available font for these characters. I have the ifntchia.rpm installed. A translation by LaTeX still gives correct results. Did I miss something? BTW: The cjk-enc.el from CJK 4.4.0 which allowed to use Chinese characters without any CJK commands in LaTeX files seems to fail with the Emacs 21.1.1. It correctly processes the Chinese characters but skips the German umlaut characters. It worked well with the Emacs 20.7.1 from SuSE 7.3. Is that a known problem? Friedrich -- Friedrich Dimmling Berlin, Germany

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Chinese in an English KDE
by Jethro Cramp 16 May '02

16 May '02

How do I setup my environment so that I can have kde setup to be in English and all kde programs + OOo and yet I can still write in simplified Chinese. Running KDE3.0 on SuSE 7.3, about to upgrade to 8.0 TIA, Jethro

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openoffice.org1.0 and compose key
by Gerhard Schuck 15 May '02

15 May '02

Hello, as it seams the compose key doesn't work for openoffice.org1.0, if I start it (german version) with japanese locale and with XMODIFIERS set. That means input of accented characters is quite inconvenient: "Einfuegen/Sonderzeichen" or copy and paste from a separate file. Does anyone know a way to make the compose key work or a more convenient way of writing accented characters? Thanks in advance Gerhard Schuck geschu(a)ma5.seikyou.ne.jp

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UTF-8 and Turkish
by Togan Muftuoglu 14 May '02

14 May '02

Hi, I am trying to use UTF-8 as the the locale environment under SuSE 8.0. I have some problematic areas where I have not find a solution yet. Hence I need assistance This is what I have under $HOME/.profile export LANG="turkish" export LC_CTYPE="tr_TR.utf8" export LC_NUMERIC="tr_TR.utf8" export LC_TIME="POSIX" export LC_COLLATE="POSIX" export LC_MONETARY="tr_TR.utf8" export LC_MESSAGES="en_US" export LC_PAPER="tr_TR.utf8" export LC_NAME="tr_TR.utf8" export LC_ADDRESS="tr_TR.utf8" export LC_TELEPHONE="tr_TR.utf8" export LC_MEASUREMENT="tr_TR.utf8" export LC_IDENTIFICATION="tr_TR.utf8" Under KDE-> Control Center -> Personalization -> Country and language I have Country as Turkey language as English. I did not install kde-i18n related packages as I do not use the system other than English, however I do create documents in Turkish and I type using the Turkish keyboard. 1) When I type locale charmap I get UTF-8 so my understanding is I am using UTF-8 2) I use "utf8xterm" shell script that comes with shtools-2002.01.30-39 and a) I can type all the turkish characters in the Xterm environment created by this script b) I can use Vim and type the Turkish characters ş (scedilla) ğ (gbreve) ı (idotless) İ (Iabovedot) hence I can use Mutt and type these characters and read them. c) same is true if I just open a konsole with KDE d) When I use "xev" pressing the keys scedila gbreve idotless Iabovedot produces empty. So just to test I made a symbolink link under /usr/lib/locale for tr_TR.UTF-8 which is pointing to tr_TR.utf8. When I export tr_TR.UTF-8 for LC_CTYPE and use "xev" this time I get back the desired output. However this causes Netscape 4.79 to behave strange and I can not use Netscape. e) if LC_CTYPE is tr_TR.utf8 then under emacs I can not type the scedilla, idotless, gbreve, Iabovedot. I have the mule-ucs package installed but still no hope. I tried with setting emacs language environment to turkish but no. There must be something I need to tweak. However I just use emacs for Docbook editing and thats all so I do not know the internals . So in short tp rephrase what do I have to do to have a proper UTF-8 environment which will enable me to type read in Turkish but provide me all the menus and system messages in English Thanks -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx

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CJK support of Eterm and aterm
by hillmanhk 07 May '02

07 May '02

Hi all, It's my first time to use this mail list, hi all^^ When I try to use the multi-language support options of Eterm and aterm, i.e. --mencoding, -mfont of Eterm, -km, -fm of aterm, I'll get an error message that they don't recognize those options, it seems that they are compiled without enable multi-language function. Could you help me? Regards, Hillman Dai Hay Ming ================================================================== 世界盃　送機票　任你答 http://wc2002.sina.com.hk/game/ 給遠方親友傳上無限驚喜：http://sms.sina.com.hk

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suse 7.3 xemacs(mule) printing problem
by Wolfgang Slany 02 May '02

02 May '02

How to tweak xemacs to print text files (including Japanese text)? My Suse 7.3 (german, professional) xemacs with Japanese support sends the text to the apsfilter but a2ps then fails. Sending euc encoded files directly to a2ps produces bakemoji, so my a2ps seems not to support Japanese. Is there a simpler solution than replacing a2ps with a patched version (as in http://www.on.cs.keio.ac.jp/~yasu/jp_a2ps.html) when I have all Japanese packages from Suse 7.3 (german, professional, dvd) installed? Also, there seems to be some unrelated encoding problem (see the end of this memo) that makes a2ps think a shifted-jis encoded file was sent to it instead of the normal euc encoded one (that is specified in xemacs). Printing Japanese html pages from netscape works fine, and gs can print latex'ed Japanese files fine. Some details: # a2ps --version GNU a2ps 4.13 After the failed printing from xemacs, I get the following mail From: (STDIN) <lp(a)linux.local> Subject: apsfilter: printer fault during job (STDIN) apsfilter: unable to print job (STDIN) Additionally, lpq -lllll reports (first failure after issuing a M-x ps-print-buffer, second failure after pressing the "Print" button): user@linux:~> lpq -lllll Printer: lp@linux 'y2prn_lp.upp auto' Queue: no printable jobs in queue Status: job 'cfA280linux.local' error 'aborting operations' at 06:35:49.373 Status: sending mail to 'root' at 06:35:49.375 Status: removing job 'cfA280linux.local' - ABORT at 06:35:49.807 Status: waiting for subserver to exit at 06:36:40.013 Status: subserver pid 1346 starting at 06:36:40.217 Status: opening device '/dev/lp0' at 06:36:40.218 Status: printing job 'user@linux+344' at 06:36:40.219 Status: processing 'dfA344linux.local', size 13152, format 'l', IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' at 06:36:40.220 Status: IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' filter msg - '%%[ Error: syntaxerror; OffendingCommand: --nostringval-- ]%%' at 06:36:47.890 Status: IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' filter msg - 'GNU Ghostscript 6.51: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1' at 06:36:47.892 Status: IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' filter exit status 'JABORT' at 06:36:48.683 Status: printing finished at 06:36:48.684 Status: finished 'user@linux+344', status 'JABORT' at 06:36:48.684 Status: subserver pid 1346 exit status 'JABORT' at 06:36:48.688 Status: job 'cfA344linux.local' error 'aborting operations' at 06:36:48.723 Status: sending mail to 'root' at 06:36:48.726 Status: removing job 'cfA344linux.local' - ABORT at 06:36:49.217 Status: subserver pid 1964 starting at 09:43:42.917 Status: opening device '/dev/lp0' at 09:43:42.935 Status: waiting for subserver to exit at 09:43:43.408 Status: printing job 'user@linux+962' at 09:43:43.436 Status: processing 'dfA962linux.local', size 146, format 'l', IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' at 09:43:43.437 Status: IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' filter msg - 'a2ps: unknown encoding `ja_jp.sjis'' at 09:43:49.574 Status: IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' filter msg - '%%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: closefile ]%%' at 09:43:55.702 Status: IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' filter msg - 'GNU Ghostscript 6.51: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1' at 09:43:55.705 Status: IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' filter exit status 'JABORT' at 09:43:57.540 Status: printing finished at 09:43:57.541 Status: finished 'user@linux+962', status 'JABORT' at 09:43:57.541 Status: subserver pid 1964 exit status 'JABORT' at 09:43:57.622 Status: job 'cfA962linux.local' error 'aborting operations' at 09:43:57.722 Status: sending mail to 'root' at 09:43:57.725 Status: removing job 'cfA962linux.local' - ABORT at 09:43:58.213 As mentioned in the beginning, the "unknown encoding `ja_jp.sjis'" is also weird since (I believe) I set xemacs to encode files as euc-jp. I may be wrong, but I copied everything from http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/emacs-and-xemacs.html to my ~/.xemacs/init.el file. Thanks for any simple help and best regards, Wolfgang Wolfgang SLANY mailto:wsi@dbai.tuwien.ac.at

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How to report translation "bugs"
by Pedro Díaz Jiménez 02 May '02

02 May '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, I'm want to report some spanish translation errors in SuSE 8.0 (mainly RPM packages descriptions). Who should I contact? Thanks Pedro - -- /* * Pedro Diaz Jimenez * * pdiaz "AT" pdiaz "DOT" homeunix "DOT" net, * http://acm.asoc.fi.upm.es/~pdiaz * * GPG KeyID: E118C651 * Fingerprint: 1FD9 163B 649C DDDC 422D 5E82 9EEE 777D E118 C65 * * Home address: 40º 31.74'N 3º 37.59'W * */ - -- "You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. " -- Al Capone (1899-1947) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE80T/Hnu53feEYxlERAi96AJ0c5eVK4/HnSOMOCX+GlS6HKzUq4wCgteeq CxjQ+CkPajddGjSJJLRdmmI= =dSUk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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