[Etch] Re: fbiterm and Japanese (and French...)

[Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion@mx6.tiki.ne.jp>]

2 years and 4 months later...

My original problem was X configuration on my PowerBook G4 (Titanium).  
The impossibility to use X led me to consider the use of various  
unicode supporting terminals as well as a Japanese input system plus  
the French input (with dead keys) on that Japan 106 Apple keyboard.

I tried Etch last night and it was simply a breeze to install and  
configure. I have it running, with the Japanese input, in an English  
locale.

Now the problem is setting the French input on that keyboard. Since it  
is an Apple Japanese keyboard, it comes with keys that are not found  
on PC keyboards. Also, I'd like to be able to use the keyboard as  
close as I used to when on the Mac side: Command instead of Control,  
Alt as a dead key and used also in Japanese input (for ex to type "…")  
etc...

Is there a relatively easy to understand how all that works and how to  
fix it the way I want it ?


Jean-Christophe Helary


On lundi 02 oct. 06, at 17:39, David Kuehling wrote:

> > > > > > "Jean-Christophe" == Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion@mx6.tiki.ne.jp 
> > > > > > > writes:
> > Now I need to figure out a number of things that are not exactly
> > clear:
>
> > 1) My keyboard is roughly a jp106. How can configure the system to be
> > able to input French with as little hassle as possible ?
>
> > 2) Second input question: I need Japanese input. What is the input
> > method that works the best with fbiterm ? And will all applications
> > running in fbiterm accept the input. Are there still applications  
> > that
> > do not support UTF-8 input/display ?
>
> You might want to consider using emacs on console to do your work.
> Install emacs21 and mule-ucs.  On Debian Sarge you will need to define
> some environment variable to actually activate mule-ucs (see
> /usr/share/doc/mule-ucs/README.Debian or Changelog)
>
> In emacs, enter M-x set-terminal-coding-system <Ret> utf-8 <Ret> to
> enable emacs to output japanese characters on your console.
>
> To input japanese, enter M-x set-input-method <Ret> japanese <Ret>
>
> To input french, you might try
> M-x set-input-method <Ret> french-prefix <Ret>
>
> If you need a console with japanese input, just run a console from
> within emacs:  M-x shell <Ret>
> or probably better:  M-x eshell <Ret>
>
> To enter M-x (Meta-x) from the console, you might have to press the
> sequence <Esc> x instead.
>
> If you need a more evolved input method than the emacs-internal
> "japanese", try to install anthy and anthy-el.  Then configure anthy  
> for
> japanese input.  This should work much better.
>
> To view the documentation of emacs' internal japanese input method,
> enter
>
> M-x describe-input-method <Ret> japanese <Ret>
>
> regards,
>
> David
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