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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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Tamil support
by Rajesh Ganesan 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

Hi Mike, Long time, no? Quite busy with my professional works. Well, got the great news that new suse is about to be released sometime in september. Let me remind you of Tamil support therein. Please try including the following: Tamil fonts Tamil IMEs It would be great if yast2 gives us a choice to select one of our Tamil IMEs too. I know qt3.2 has support to Indic languages, and kde3.2 will be released only in December. But, try your best to support our Tamil. For your information, the website is www.tamillinux.org and www.tamil.homelinux.org Regards, Rajesh

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Printing Chinese from Awk
by Friedrich Dimmling 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Hi How to print Chinese from inside an Awk program like awk 'BEGIN{printf "%c\n", ucode}' where is ucode is the Unicode code value of the character. However %c works only for single byte chars. I'm using GNU awk 3.1.1 from SuSE 8.1. Friedrich -- Friedrich Dimmling Berlin, Germany www.friedrich-dimmling.de

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Non-KDE applications in Japanese
by Pen^2 17 Aug '03

17 Aug '03

Hi, I've already installed SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional in Japanese. After installing it, no problem with KDE in Japanese. The menu already viewed in Japanese. But some applications can't view Japanese correctly (a.k.a mojibake), such as Sylpheed, XMMS, and other non-KDE applications. Any ideas how to solve this problem? Pen^2

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LaTeX CJK not printing characters
by Jason McCormick 11 Aug '03

11 Aug '03

Hello all, I'm running into a situation where LaTeX documents with all characters present in the .tex are not appearing when they are composed into a .dvi. For example, the line: \section*{美國廠牌} displays only 2 characters (the first and last) when it's composed as opposed to all four. Is this a missing character in the font? Thanks, Jason

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Poblems with scim
by Marc Waeckerlin 08 Aug '03

08 Aug '03

I have some questions, problems with SCIM, i.e. the SuSE packages from M. Fabian: Intoduction: Since I found no way to install arbitrary RPMs from YaST, I installed the scim with "rpm -ivh scim*" (and I already tried to recover the problems with "rpm --rebuilddb" twice). I upgrade my system with YOU daily, I also downloaded and installed all new SuSE KDE packages. SCIM corrupts YaST software update: 1) The dependencies seem to be corrupt. I installed scim-0.5.1-0. When I start YaST, it complains that all other scim packages (scim-config-gconf, scim-devel, ...) have an unresolved dependency to "scim = 0.5.1-". That should be "scim = 0.5.1-0", I suppose or better "scim >= 0.5.1". 2) What's worse: If I then click "Ignore All" and "Yes, Really" (or how it is translated english, I use german), then I get a dialog "Ignore all changes? Yes/No". This dialog reappears in an endless loop, regardles whether I click "Yes" or "no". I can no more access YaST software update. The only way is to kill YaST (with xkill, respectively Ctrl-Alt-Esc). Now, I cannot use the Grafical/X11 YaST anymore, only the command line YaST! When I deinstall the SCIM packages, YaST works again... Next problem: PinYin: 1) What's "Smart" Chinese Pin Yin? - Is there a "normal" Chinese Pin Yin (preferabely open source)? - Does "Smart" mean "automatic reordering" or "automatic completion"? If so, then I'd prefer a "non smart" Pin Yin... 2) Isn't it allowed to mirror the Pin Yin method in mfabian's home? Get all from the same source would make installation easier. 3) Will a Pin Yin method for SCIM be included in next SuSE? 4) RPM Installation of Smart Pin Yin fails with message: "error: scim-chinese-0.2.3-1ul1.i386.rpm cannot be installed", unfortunately with no reason why it cannot be installed. Any ideas, other experiences? Regards Marc

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Chinese Input on SuSE 8.2
by Isen 08 Aug '03

08 Aug '03

Hi, I've used SuSE 8.2 since may, and my dad want to give it a try too. But he needs to write in Chinese for bussiness. Can anyone here help me? I already try to install SuSE in Chinesse but still can't input Chinesse. Pointers, web link, hint, etc welcome.... Thank you. =========================================================================================== "TELKOMNet Instan Divre VI Kalimantan memberikan DISKON PROGRESSIVE kepada para pengguna TELKOMNet-Instan hingga 50% mulai bulan Juli hingga September 2003." ===========================================================================================

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"Umlaute" in OpenOffice Menues
by Matthias Seeger 07 Aug '03

07 Aug '03

Hello, I am running SuSE 8.2 on my Thinkpad X30 and need Japanese support for my German environment. Therefore I have switched over to UTF-8. Now, the German version of OO 1.0.2 (from the SuSE DVD) seems not able to get along with this settings: In all menues and dialogue windows the German "Umlaute" and the sharp "s" are missing. (I have also StarOffice 6 installed, but there it is no problem.) What can I do? Greetings from Osaka Matthias Seeger

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