Mike Fabian wrote:

David Nettles <tetsuoni3000@yahoo.co.jp> writes:

    * StarOffice - japanese text entered appears as empty rectangles.

StarOffice 5.2 doesn't support Japanese.

Hmmm.... that 's too bad, but it does explain why it doesn't work.

    * OpenOffice 1.0 (US and Japanese editions) - japanese text entered
      appears as empty rectangles.

This works, you just have to use suitable fonts.

See also http://lists.suse.com/archive/m17n/2002-Aug/0004.html
and the followups, this should help.

OK, I found that in OpenOffice there are two Japanese fonts (東風ゴシック、東風明朝) and that if I type my text with those things work fine. It's too bad that if I am using Times Roman and I begin typing Japanese that it does not simply select the nearest matching Japanese font for use. I found a thread on this topic where someone else lamented this point. I hope that this changes.

    * AbiWord - Japanese text appears as undecoded garbled ASCII (eg.
      $CA$99)

Works, see also http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/abiword.html

I wish that it worked.... read on, please....

    * KWrite, KSpread, KMail - much of Japanese entered vanishes (eg.
      ??? would result in ??.... the ? would always disappear...  same
      with many Kanji).

This works. Just choose suitable fonts.

    * Konqueror - no japanese text gets into any input boxes.

Works as well.

KWrite, KMail, Konqueror ... certainly work with the default settings
on SuSE Linux 8.0 after a installation in Japanese, therefore I
suspect you screwed something up in the KDE setup.

Looks like your are doing something wrong in KDE.

I wish that it was the case, but it would seem not.

My system was installed from scratch in Japanese. My users account was pulled over from a previous English installation that I tweaked to fit Japanese, but to re-test everything I created two new accounts (test1, test2) on this system as 100% clean default Japanese accounts. Unfortunately, all of the same problems are still present. The users are 100% Japanese config, yet the all of the KDE problems still persist and Abiword still does not work.

I did install the qt3 packages that are outlined in your site and rebooted.

I have tested this in every window manager available with SuSE 8.0.

I went a 2 steps further: I have 2 computers that I did a new clean install of SuSE-8.0 in Japanese mode, then created brand new accounts. The same conditions continue to persist.

At this point I am fairly confident that I have not affected the KDE configuration -- these installs are quite virgin.

All problems still persist.

It would seem that there is some kind of extra steps that one must perform after installing SuSE 8.0 in Japanese mode for Japanese to work reasonably.

What might you recommend?