September 2003 - openSUSE M17n - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Tamil input method for GTK2 available for SuSE Linux 8.2
by Mike FABIAN 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

The Tamil input method modul for GTK2 written by Dinesh Nadarajah which is available from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tamilinix/files/keyboard/tamil-gtk2im.tar.gz is now also available as an rpm package for SuSE Linux 8.2. You can download the packages from here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/tamil-gtk2im-0.20030519-0.i5… ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-src/tamil-gtk2im-0.20030519-0.src… -- Mike Fabian <mfabian(a)suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。

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update: ami-1.2.2 for SuSE Linux 8.2
by Mike FABIAN 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

ami-1.2.2 packages for SuSE Linux 8.2 are available here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/ami-1.2.2-2.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/amidic-1.2.2-2.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/amignome-1.2.2-2.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-src/ami-1.2.2-2.src.rpm Ami 1.2.2 has better support for UTF-8 than Ami 1.0.11. To be able to to enter Hangul syllables which are included in Unicode but are not included in KS X 1001 repertoire (For example U+AC02. U+AC02 can be typed as the keysequence 'r', 'k', 'R' on a qwerty KBD) you need to run both ami and the XIM client with LC_CTYPE="ko_KR.UTF-8". The ~/.xim file from /etc/skel/.xim as distributed with SuSE Linux 8.2 always starts ami in ko_KR.eucKR locale like this: ko*) # Korean if type -p ami > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then export XMODIFIERS="@im=Ami" case $WINDOWMANAGER in *kde|*windowmaker|*wmaker) LANG=ko_KR LC_ALL=ko_KR ami -wm -wait & ;; *) LANG=ko_KR LC_ALL=ko_KR ami & ;; esac fi ;; To get the improvement when running in ko_KR.UTF-8 locale automatically, the setting of LANG and LC_ALL on the command lines which start ami should be removed, i.e. the above snippet should look like: ko*) # Korean if type -p ami > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then export XMODIFIERS="@im=Ami" case $WINDOWMANAGER in *kde|*windowmaker|*wmaker) ami -wm -wait & ;; *) ami & ;; esac fi ;; You can also use the "xim" file from http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/misc/xim and copy it to ~/.xim in your home directory. -- Mike Fabian <mfabian(a)suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。

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update: yudit 2.7 packages available for SuSE Linux 8.1 and 8.0
by Mike FABIAN 15 Jan '04

15 Jan '04

Updated yudit packages are available for SuSE Linux 8.0: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.1-i586/yudit-2.7-0.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.1-src/yudit-2.7-0.src.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/yudit-2.7-0.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-src/yudit-2.7-0.src.rpm >From the NEWS file of yudit: NEWS> Changes since version 2.6.4: NEWS> --------------------------- NEWS> NEWS> o Added full Unicode compliant bidirectional text support NEWS> o Added fallback to root xinput style if no suitable style is found NEWS> o Received and added Polish gui translations, Persian.kmap, Sanskrit.kmap NEWS> Inuktitut-ICI.kmap, Inuktitut-KBD.kmap, Chinese-Pinyin.kmap, NEWS> Chinese-WB.kmap, ArmenianEastPhon.kmap NEWS> o Speed Optimizations NEWS> o OpenType GPOS support for composing characters NEWS> o Better TAB control NEWS> NEWS> Other Notes: NEWS> ----------- NEWS> Even if you can not read bidirectional scripts, it will be NEWS> useful to type this in the editor command area: NEWS> NEWS> howto bidi NEWS> NEWS> to get some ideas what bidi is, and how it works in Yudit. NEWS> Even if you can not read RL scripts, RL words will be indicated NEWS> in yellow (the default RL color). >From yudit's home page at http://www.yudit.org: > Yudit is a unicode text editor for the X Window System. She can do > True Type font rendering, printing, transliterated keyboard input and > handwriting recognition with no dependencies on external engines. Her > conversion utilities can convert text between various encodings. > Keyboard input maps can also act like text converters. There is no > need for a pre-installed multi-lingual environment. Menus are > translated into many languages. -- Mike Fabian <mfabian(a)suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。

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Tamil support
by Rajesh Ganesan 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

Hi Mike, Long time, no? Quite busy with my professional works. Well, got the great news that new suse is about to be released sometime in september. Let me remind you of Tamil support therein. Please try including the following: Tamil fonts Tamil IMEs It would be great if yast2 gives us a choice to select one of our Tamil IMEs too. I know qt3.2 has support to Indic languages, and kde3.2 will be released only in December. But, try your best to support our Tamil. For your information, the website is www.tamillinux.org and www.tamil.homelinux.org Regards, Rajesh

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Traditional Chinese
by Ulrich Ruess 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

Dear Mr. Fabian, due to a hard disk failure I had to set up my SuSE 8.2 from scratch, and now I feel like lost in the wilderness. 1. I set "en_US.UTF-8" in Yast2 as default and installed the Asian Fonts I thought necessary. The result was a system that had nice Western fonts and used a font like the one shown in your page "kinput2-canna-menu.html for Chinese and Japanese. It showed simplified and traditional characters in the right way, so I could read all my e-mails (kmail). Unfortunately I do not know the name of this font. Can you tell me its name? True type fonts were not yet installed at that time. 2. I additionally set "RC_LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8" in /etc/sysconfig/language. Now I had Chinese input, but all the Western fonts were switched to a nearly unreadable courier font, which seems not even to be UTF-8. Do you know the name of this font, I had the impression it is called "Adobe-Courier". 3. Since I do not often need Chinese input, I decided to set back "RC_LC_CTYPE" in /etc/sysconfig/language and set up a user for Chinese input. To do this I added "export LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8" to .profile. No visible reaction. Starting xcin in a terminal revealed that xcin was unhappy that "xcinrc" only referred to Big5. I tried to change xcinrc by changing all references to Big5 to UTF-8, but always got another error until I did no longer know what to change. I then changed to "export LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5" and Chinese input worked. Do you have any idea why? 4. Since the "Chinese" user now had the unreadable font, I decided to install True-type fonts. For this I opened the Control Center and set the Font Installer to "administrator mode". Now there are only True type and Type 1 fonts usable. I could not find a way to use the others (I am using xfs). The worst is that now the non-Chinese user has automatically replaced the original Asian fonts in kmail with something else and the respective e-mails are no longer readable. The font substitution in "qtconfig" does not work properly and system update via "YOU" was not possible, since all servers I tried said did not have the files. Hoe can I get back the original Asian font? 5. During the system update "Acrobat Reader" was also updated. After the update it did not start any longer. I de-installed it, re-installed it and added LC_CTYPE=POSIX and export LC_CTYPE to the start script. After that it worked again. Best regards Ulrich Ruess

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unsub
by sutham guptarak 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

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Re: [m17n] SuSE 8.2 + Ximian + Japanese not quite working
by David Nettles 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Pen^2 wrote: >On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 20:40:57 -0400, David Nettles <tetsuoni3000(a)yahoo.co.jp> >wrote : > > > >>The problem: When I run Ximian the menus appear perfectly in Japanese >>with Japanese fonts, BUT: >> >>* when I go to create a new message and type Japanese the text entered >>appears as empty squares. >>* Worse, when I read any Japanese email all of the Japanese text appears >>as empty squares. >>* Even worse still, when I read Japanese email the places where things >>like "To:", "From:", "Subjust:" would be is replaced with empty squares >>that obviously contain the Japanese versions of that text. >>* The summary page is unreadable because all of the Japanese text is >>empty squares. >> >> > >I've experienced with this too. But I think it's because of Missing charsets >in Fontset creation. CMIIW. > >Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation >Gdk-WARNING **: JISX0208.1983-0 >Gdk-WARNING **: JISX0201.1976-0 > >I go to gtkhtml-properties-capplet and set the font to >-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-c-*-jisx0208.1983-0 but still not >diplay properly. > >Any ideas? > >Pen^2 > >PS: Thanks to Mike Fabian san and Yasunari Imado san about an update of gtk. > > Are the above fonts part of the SuSE 8.2 distro? How can they be added? From where can they be obtained?

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Announcement of KCDict Version 0.2
by Friedrich Dimmling 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

Hi An improved version of my Chinese dictionary tool is now available for download from www.friedrich-dimmling.de/~kcdict . The main improvements are due to the incorporation of data from the Unihan database provided by the Unicode consortium. (Many thanks to Jörg Bibiko, Munich who provided me with his extract from Unihan.txt). Now 20902 Chinese characters can be identified by radical and stroke count, simplified and traditional variants of a character are displayed and - for the vast majority of characters - Mandarin and Cantonese pronounciation. Since the prograam was developed using KDE3.0.5 (SuSE8.1), users of later versions (KDE3.1.x) should consult the known problems section for the very few additional steps to perform on compiling the sources. Have a lot of fun! Friedrich -- Friedrich Dimmling Berlin, Germany www.friedrich-dimmling.de

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convert text
by Giulio F. 06 Sep '03

06 Sep '03

Hi, This morning I receive a mail in chinese a portion: #20320;#30340;#22969;#22969; #21704;#21704;#65292;#25105;#29616;#22312;#35201;#22797;#20064;#24847;#2282 3;#21033;#35821;#65281;#65281;#65281;#24076;#26395;#20889;#24471;#27809;#381 69;#65281; how can i convert to readable text? I tried with ionv but thise program gave me an error message: illegal input sequence at position 409 Thank you! Giulio F.

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Solved the problems with scim
by Giulio F. 06 Sep '03

06 Sep '03

Hi, Tonight I changed all the locale in unicode and now I can run scim without problems... Only emacs seems can't read all the unicode characters create with kde application (some become square), although I've installed MULE-UCS. there are some lines to add into .emacs? Thank you very much! Giuli F.

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