May 2004 - openSUSE M17n - openSUSE Mailing Lists

No compose characters possible with asian language setting
by akimbo337＠gmx.de 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hello! I'm currently using SuSE 9.0 pro for both german and japanese input. This works fine so far, by setting the variables LC_CTYPE to ja_JP.UTF-8 and LANG to de_DE.UTF-8, but nevertheless I experienced a problem: With the LC_CTYPE set to japanese and an input method running (currently kinput2), I cannot type european language compose characters any more - at least the ones I used to produce with two sequent keystrokes ( ´ and e for é for example). The rest of my (german) keyboard layout works all fine, and with LC_CTYPE set to german, é's, à's, ô's, etc pose no problem, but then, of course, I cannot input japanese... This problem seems also to be existent for other language settings that use an input method, I tried it out with a friend who uses chinese input (also on SuSE 9.0 pro). We (my friend and I) are currently writing an article about asian language input with StarOffice/OOo, so we would really appreciate any help or hint concerning this problem. Thanks. Marcel Boeing

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console problems with UTF-8 in SuSE 8.2
by David Banz 30 May '04

30 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have switched the default encoding of a SuSE Linux 8.2 installation from de_DE@euro to de_DE.UTF-8. > locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE=POSIX LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ALL= This works fine as long as I am using X11-applications, like KDE and xterm. However, non-ASCII-characters (e.g. german umlauts) are not properly displayed on the console and input of such characters is screwed up as well. Is there any way to fix this, so that input and display of non-ASCII-characters works on the console like before? - -- David Banz [ GPG-Key: 1024D/A0EB5FBA 2003-04-26 Key fingerprint = 1344 D4EE 9769 EC2F 396F FDB3 A9A1 D6E9 A0EB 5FBA ] "The zebra is not famous for its spots..." -- Winston Seth -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkC5+bsACgkQqaHW6aDrX7rdFQCgh4D9hwsPjji3GGu0tXlhF90J yPoAoILnvA38CsZdEC/uhzxJjYeDErb/ =XEk3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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xpdf: improved package for SuSE 9.1/9.0
by Mike FABIAN 07 May '04

07 May '04

New features: - TrueType fonts can now be used for CJK and the new setup uses them by default. This makes Japanese look more beautiful then with the Wadalab fonts and makes simplified Chinese work. - non-ASCII file names can now be displayed in the file selector box - search now works for non-ASCII characters (Japanese, German umlauts ...) Packages are here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/9.0/i586/xpdf-3.00-67.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/9.0/i586/xpdf-config-3.00-67.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/9.0/src/xpdf-3.00-67.src.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/9.1/i586/xpdf-3.00-64.3.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/9.1/i586/xpdf-config-3.00-64.3.i586.r… ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/9.1/src/xpdf-3.00-64.3.src.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/9.1/x86_64/xpdf-3.00-64.3.x86_64.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/9.1/x86_64/xpdf-config-3.00-64.3.x86_… To avoid some crashes in t1lib which had been reported to me, the above packages do not link against t1lib anymore, only against freetype2. This is enough as freetype2 can handle Type1 fonts as well, t1lib isn't really needed. -- 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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JOE editor: UTF-8 capable update for SuSE 9.1
by Mike FABIAN 03 May '04

03 May '04

JOE is a fairly popular editor. It si similar to WordStar but can also emulate the basic behaviour of Pico and Emacs (when called as jpico or jmacs respectively). Especially the Pico emulation may help Pine users because Pico is the default editor of Pine. Long time Pico/Pine users are often reluctant to switch to a different editor. Maybe the Pico emulation of JOE can help here. Updated joe packages for SuSE 9.1 are here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/9.1/i586/joe-3.0-2.1.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/9.1/src/joe-3.0-2.1.src.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/9.1/x86_64/joe-3.0-2.1.x86_64.rpm More details about JOE: http://sourceforge.net/projects/joe-editor -- 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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