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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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update: mined 2000.3 package available for SuSE Linux 8.0
by Mike Fabian 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

An updated package of mined is available for SuSE Linux 8.0: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/mined-2000.3-0.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-src/mined-2000.3-0.src.rpm Mined is a text editor, small and easy to use, yet powerful. It is Unicode-capable, using UTF-8 encoding (also converts UTF-16 input). >From the CHANGES file: ============================================================================= Changes from mined 2000.2 -> mined 2000.3 ========================================= Documentation: -------------- The manual page was updated and thoroughly revised. Its primary source was transformed into HTML, roff/man format being generated. The mined web pages were updated and revised. The file "doc/compilation" (with compilation hints) was updated. Features: --------- HOP '/' enters an indented Javadoc comment frame. Interface: ---------- Options can be concatenated on the command line. (mined -uu instead of mined -u -u enables Unicode line separators.) Right-to-left script input support is now enabled by default. The option -b toggles it. Option -G disables (actually toggles) the display of certain control characters as block graphics characters (enabled by default). Option +G enforces use of block graphics for display of menu borders. May be used if the "alternative character set" capability is not configured in your system but your terminal does have the capability. Set output delay (-d0..-d9) to none (-d-) by default in all versions. The help command was unified on Unix and DOS versions. Not completely, however, as calling a sub-programm ("less") through the "system" call doesn't seem to work on DOS (it crashes or blocks terminal input afterwards, even with cygwin). See also next comment. A second help viewing mode is now avaible (HOP HELP, e.g. HOP F1). It displays help information within mined itself, restoring the previous editing state afterwards. This is the default on MSDOS for the reason mentioned before. Bug fixes: ---------- Fixed a screen-related pointer confusion after replacement with multiple lines (embedded newline) which could result in a display bug and page down could be blocked. (Very minor) Just deleting the trailing line-end of a file is also considered a modification (a file only modified this way would previously not have been saved automatically). (Minor) With UTF-8 auto-detection involved, the character count after reading the file could be wrong (ESC ? would have been correct). (Minor) The pop-up menu, when modified with HOP and thus becoming smaller, used to leave the frame of its previous width on the screen. (Embarassing) Although I was proud of "perfect responsiveness to window size changes" I had just forgotten to implement that for the case of a menu being open. On DOS, editing a file with Unix line-ends, the function "append to buffer" used to append the lines with MSDOS line-ends. -- 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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Announcement of KCDict
by Friedrich Dimmling 03 Jul '03

03 Jul '03

Hi, I would like to introduce the first prerelease version of my Chinese-English dictionary tool KCDict. This is a KDE frontend to the CEDICT Chinese English dictionary data files available from www.mandarintools.com. If you are interested have a look at www.friedrich-dimmling.de/~kcdict for a closer look. Of course, any feedback is welcome. Friedrich -- Friedrich Dimmling Berlin, Germany www.friedrich-dimmling.de/~kcdict

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javadict font problem
by Martin Lechner 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

Hello m17n, Wenn Javadict starts I get th efolowing message: Warning: Cannot convert string "-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--*-140-*-*-c-*-jisx0201.1976-0" to type FontStruct Warning: Name: Text Class: XmTextField Character '\122' not supported in font. Discarded. Everything works, except the dropdown list on the upper left for which should show the characters (If you use handwriting, or the dictionary) During the work, I get a lot of warnings like the above but with different char-codes: eg.: Warning: Name: Text Class: XmTextField Character '\346\260\227' not supported in font. Discarded. I think that it is the missing font. So my question is: a.) How can I get it? or b.) How can I change it? (I have -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--*-150-*-*-c-*-jisx0201.1976-0 installed) Any clues? -- Best regards, Martin mailto:bruce_np@sbox.tugraz.at

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Need help with system setup: CJK with Kile?
by Martin Lechner 26 Jun '03

26 Jun '03

Hello m17n, I try to set up my system (Suse8.2) with Japanese support. I used the folowing parameters: export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 export LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8 canna Server kinput2 Input method Here my Questions: 1: I cant write Japanese in the Kile latex editor. I can write in kwrite. In Kile, the charackters appear, but when I save it, and reload, i have just ???? there. If I open a document written in Kwrite, I get boxes instead of ????. Any suggestions? 2: Is it possible to have japanes and chinese Input method installed, and to use both in one document? ( I want to try the xcin server.) -- Best regards, Martin mailto:bruce_np@sbox.tugraz.at

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ebview ("Electronic Book Viewer"): new package for SuSE 8.2
by Mike FABIAN 24 Jun '03

24 Jun '03

Ebview ("Electronic Book Viewer") is a program to read CD-ROM dictionaries in EPWING format. See also http://ebview.sourceforge.net/ Packages for SuSE Linux 8.2 are here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/ebview-0.3.0-0.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/ebview-0.3.0-0.src.rpm There are at least 2 free dictionaries available in EPWING format, one is Ulrich Apel's German/Japanese dictionary WaDoKUJT: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/wadoku-fpw-1.1-0.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-src/wadoku-fpw-1.1-0.src.rpm and the other are the English/Japanese "intelligent" dictionary files of the FOKS project which are based on Jim Breen's EDICT (see also http://www.foks.info/index.html): ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/foks-fpw-1.1-0.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-src/foks-fpw-1.1-0.src.rpm Such EPWING dictionaries can also be viewed with lookup.el from (X)Emacs. -- 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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Re: [m17n] Announcement of KCDict
by Friedrich Dimmling 17 Jun '03

17 Jun '03

Hi Jan, Am Dienstag, 17. Juni 2003 08:25 schrieb Jan Hefti: > > I've had almost no trouble installing, except for the line > > virtual void languageChange(); > > which I had to add in the > > public slots: > > section to > > kcdict/RadLookUp.h > kcdict/setprefs.h > kcdict/userentry.h > > or else the compiler would complain that languageChange() had not been > declared in those classes. (Using SuSE 8.2, configured with > -prefix=/opt/kde3.) > Ooops, that is not what it should be. It must have to do with differences between 8.1 and 8.2 because I cannot find any reference to languageChange() in my sources. Well for the moment I will include your hint in the 'Known Problems' section on the website. Thanks a lot. Friedrich -- Friedrich Dimmling Berlin, Germany www.friedrich-dimmling.de

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phantom characters
by Peter Evans 11 Jun '03

11 Jun '03

Since successfully Japanesizing my SuSE 8.2 personal system (thank you, all!), I've noticed a new problem. Suppose I go to the box in which I've typed "phantom characters" (the title of this message), move the cursor to the front, and delete the initial "p" (perhaps because I want to change it to "P"). The other 18 characters -- including the space, and sorry if I've miscounted -- would be expected to move slightly to the left: hantom characters That's what would have happened last week. But now, it wouldn't happen; instead I'd see: hantom characterss Indeed, if I left my finger on the Del key, I'd read racterssssssssssss etc. Now, my growing-fast-but-still-minuscule knowledge of Linux tells me that Del and Backspace don't work in (say) bash as they might on the MS-DOS command line to which I'm accustomed. Fair enough. But why should the addition of Japanese make this change to Mozilla? More widely, text input works fine in some places -- e.g. the message box of Mozilla; I have no trouble revising what I am writing *here* -- and not others, where the text-input vertical-line cursor seems not to be placed quite correctly. If this is a known bug somewhere, tell me and I'll learn to live with it. I'm asking because I suspect that it's a well known fact that XXX should be set to YYY whereas my XXX is probably set to ZZZ; and I'm asking here because (a) the change does seem to be Japanesification-related, and (b) you're such nice people :-)

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