June 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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kinput2 and dead keys
by Rowdy Rednose 21 Aug '04

21 Aug '04

If I enable kinput2, I am no longer able to use dead keys. Does anyone know, how I can use both?

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SuSE 9.1 Font problems and solutions
by Walter Betschart 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Font problems in KDE 3.2.1 ========================== In my opinion with a standard SuSE 9.1 installation the fonts don't look as nice as they did in KDE 3.1.1 (SuSE 9.0). With most monospace fonts smaller than 12 the German Umlauts look very bad. Eg. only the left dot of the umlaut in ö is displayed. I downloaded freetype 2.1.8 and installed it. I could not see a difference. Then I switched on the bytecode-interpreter. The problem with the German umlauts was gone. But the fonts in general looked even worse. Font problems in OpenOffice.org =============================== Most of the fonts don't look as nice as in SuSE 9.0 Same with the UI. Support for Thai characters was totally broken. Depending on the font, size and style, the rendering was OK, only readable or unreadable. Especially texts in bold was unreadable. Upgrading to freetype 2.1.8 didn't help here either. But after switching on the bytecode-interpreter, the problems with Thai text had gone. But the fonts in general still did not look as good as in SuSE 9.0. I removed OpenOffice_org-1.1.1 and installed OpenOffice from the SuSE 9.0 DVD. Everything looked good and Thai was rendered perfectly. Solution ======== Then I found the updates from Mike Fabian on ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/9.1/i586/ I installed the updated packages for freetype2 (and all other updates relevant for my installation). After restarting X the fonts in KDE looked almost as good as in SuSE 9.0. Though I still think, the fonts looked smoother in SuSE 9.0. It also solved the font problem I had in OpenOffice_org-1.1.1. I could upgrade to the OpenOffice.org version in SuSE 9.1. Problems not solved =================== The Thai character sequence "consonant, mai-tho, sara-am" is still rendered incorrectly in KDE (and KMail). Eg: น้ำ In KMail thai text is renderd incorrect in the "message body" but correct in the "composer" (with the same font and size). Eg: มีเตอร์

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Terminal "jitters"
by ピアスエリック 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Hey all, I just did an upgrade install from a Japanese/SuSE 9.0 to Japanese/SuSE 9.1. On the terminal (any terminal), I'm getting weird behavior, and my first guess is it's UTF related. For example, if I type 'hello' on the terminal, then type alt-b (to go back a word) and then type 'goodbye' followed by return, here's what I get: $ hello $ gheoheohedhebheyheehello bash: goodbyehello: command not found You can see the text is input correctly, but the display is screwed up. Anyone else have this problem? I'm considering a fresh install, but I'd rather figure this out instead. Thanks for any ideas. Eric Pierce __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? http://bb.yahoo.co.jp/

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copying mail-address
by Walter L. Engl 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

May be everybody knows, but I did not: When receiving a mail, which was probably encoded with ISO-2022-JP it can be read with UTF-8 setting. But if I copy the mailaddress in my address book and use it later on with UTF-8 encoding, the mail will be returned, because there is a \" in front of the @ mark automatically generated, which cannot be seen at the time of sending the mail. I type the address by hand, but is there a procedure by which this effect can be avoided automatically? I am using Mozilla 1.5 in Linux 9.0, because I like "writing on the spot". Walter.

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ISO-8859-* to UTF-8 conversion
by Filippos Papadopoulos 17 Jun '04

17 Jun '04

Hi. Is there an easy way to convert between the iso-8859-* encodings to the UTF-8 ? E.g is there a command line tool that takes as arguments an input file say text in iso-8859-7 (Greek) and outputs the same file converted to UTF-8. If not what is the easiest way to do this? BTW as of SuSE 9.1, has the default encoding changed to UTF-8 ?

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Re: [m17n] ISO-8859-* to UTF-8 conversion
by Stephen Holmes 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

Quickest way to do it would be to use iconv... iconv -l will show you the encodings available on your syste,. iconv -f {encoding} -t UTF-8 {inputfile} > {outputfile} iconv functionality also sports an API if you want to use it in code. Cheers Steve. >>> Gerhard Schuck <geschu(a)ma5.seikyou.ne.jp> 08/06/2004 00:46:47 >>> Filippos Papadopoulos wrote: > Hi. > Is there an easy way to convert between the iso-8859-* encodings to the > UTF-8 ? E.g is there a command line tool that takes as arguments an input > file say text in iso-8859-7 (Greek) and outputs the same file converted to > UTF-8. > If not what is the easiest way to do this? > The following info could be interesting for you, though it is mainly related to cjk encodings: http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/encodings.html Gerhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: m17n-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: m17n-help(a)suse.com

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Printing troubles
by Yuriy Chumak 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

Hello. I has not a possibility to print from Mozilla any cyrillic text. While printing from Mozilla printers output has encoding othen than ISO-8859-1, the filter launches the programm /usr/bin/ogonkify. But this programm has neiter KOI8-R not WIN1251 encodings. Please, tell me how can I print KOI8-R and WIN1251 encoded texts from Mozilla? My system - SuSE-9.0 ---- http://mp3.optima.ua

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