Hello Mike, dear all, thanks for your support Mike. Although it does not work fully, yet, I am at least able to see some hiragana. :) What did I do: 1) I returned my system to German values, as you advised in your last mail. 2) I proceed, after booting, with the following commands: export XMODIFIERS="@im=kinput2" LANG=ja_JP kinput2 -xim -kinput -canna & LC_CTYPE=ja_JP kmail OK, then I can activate the XIM as before but when I push Return, everything converts to small squares. There are no question marks anymore, because I changed the font to jis-fixed and activated unicode for mails. But still, in a mail that I try to write, I see only nothing but squares. In mails which I received, however, I can identify some hiragana, like in your signature. You write something like XXXX ha i i XX no X da. I see the X as squares. Maybe we can try a counter-test. Can you read this? 日本語は難しいですね。 I wanted to write "Nihongo ha muzukashii desu ne."
if you have installed xfntjp.rpm you should have a quite large selection of Japanese bitmap fonts.
Obviously, I have not installed this. I looked for it on rpmfind.org and found some quite large files (16MB), so I backed away from downloading them. Maybe it is a must to do?
If you want Anti-Aliasing, you can use the free Japanese TrueType fonts "Kochi Mincho" and "Kochi Gothic" fonts which are available as well on the SuSE Linux 7.3 CD set.
In the first step, I am keen on seeing complete Japanese text, anti-aliasing comes later. I looked for these two fonts anyway but could not find them on my SuSE CDs. Where do I have to look? I am looking forward to hearing from you. Sincerely yours, Bernhard