Japanese Language kit

[Alexander Apprich]

Rajiv,

Rajiv wrote:
> Dear All,
>    Basically to read and write japanese. I would also appriciate if 
> anyone could give me a good link for learning japanese so that it would 
> be useful for my next project.

To be able to read and write japanese you need to install the following
packages (this list comes from a RH9 install, but the list should be the
same on FC2, exept for XFree86-devel-fig-devel as FC has xfree-org ).

Canna-*
kinput2-canna-wnn6
nvi-m17n-canna
pango-devel
glib2-devel
atk-devel
XFree86-devel-fig-devel
freetype-devel
fontconfig-devel
Wnn6-SDK-*
sylpheed

If you install via yum or apt, you might be lucky getting around the
dependencies. With these packages installed you should be able to read/
and write in (allmost) any GTK-based application. My favorite mail
client for reading/writing japanese mails is sylpheed. I have a lil
script to start it...

apprich at kidd apprich $ cat bin/sylpheed
#!/bin/sh
export LC_ALL=ja_JP
export LANG=ja_JP.eucJP
export XMODIFIERS='@im=kinput2'
kinput2 -canna &
/usr/bin/sylpheed

In sylpheed I just need to press shift+spacebar and I'm able to write in
japanese. If you don't want sylpheed to be fully in japanese remove the
export LC and export LANG.

Sorry, don't really know somthing to learn japanese.

> 
> Regards,
> Rajiv