Gerhard Schuck <geschu@ma5.seikyou.ne.jp> writes:
Will there be a special CJK version of SuSE 8.0
No, but the 'normal' version should be good enough for CJK. At least it should be improved again for CJK compared to all previous versions.
(and will it be available in Japan?)
I don't know, it looks like there are still problems to make it available in Japan. I hope that these problems can be solved, but I don't know for sure.
or is it easier to use the "normal" version and just download all cjk related stuff?
This time, the 'normal' version already contains more CJK related stuff than any previous 'normal' version of SuSE Linux. Because we wanted SuSE Linux 8.0 to comform to the LI18NUX2000 specification, see also http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/li18nux-test.html we included basic support for all CJK languages into all SuSE Linux 8.0 CD sets. Even the German edition already contains the Korean XIM server Ami and the Chinese XIM server xcin this time. For Japanese, there is even more stuff included than for Korean or Chinese, it may be already enough for most users. At least some basic stuff is there for all CJK languages. It should be easy to download and install additional CJK related packages from the SuSE ftp server. There are 3 versions of SuSE Linux 8.0: - German - International-1 (USA, France, ...) - International-2 (Czechia, Hungary, ...) CJK support is quite good in all of them. But (as usual) International-2 contains a few more CJK packages (FreeWnn, nicolatter, jmode, anthy, chasen, kakasi, cjk-latex, cjk-lyx, eb, eblook, xjdic, gjiten, javadict, kanji-lookup, kanjipad, edict, jtools, nkf, are only on International-2). On top of that, International-2 already contains some fixes for Qt3 which are important for CJK which were unfortunately not yet included in the German and International-1 edition. I recommend that people interested in CJK using Qt3/KDE3 who have only the German or International-1 edition update to the improved Qt3 packages available here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/qt3-devel-doc.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/qt3-devel-tools.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/qt3-devel-tutorial.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/qt3-devel.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/qt3-extensions.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/qt3-man.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/qt3-non-mt.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/qt3-static.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/qt3.rpm -- Mike Fabian <mfabian@suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。