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Topic: Reading and typing Japanese in DSL, how can I enable this option?

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mwdowns

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Posted: Nov. 05 2005,03:42

Hello everyone!

How can I enable my DSL frugal install to read (rather display) and write Japanese? Is there an extension I can download using myDSL? I looked, but couldn't find (or recognize) anything for Japanese.

Thanks.

mwdowns

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Posted: Nov. 14 2005,02:30

Sorry to bump this...

...but, does anyone have an idea about this?

Thanks.

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Posted: Nov. 15 2005,02:08

DSL is an English language only distro.

We try to support as many common keymaps as possible, but it would be impossible to include EVERY keymap and keep functionality in the required 50mb footprint.

There are no plans to support any other language in the base iso, but some users have submitted language packs as extensions.

You are welcome to do the same for your preferred language.

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mwdowns

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Posted: Nov. 15 2005,03:00

Thanks for your reply.

Where can I take a look at the extensions others have submitted? I'm not a programmer, so I wouldn't even know where to start in building a Japanese extension.

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Posted: Nov. 15 2005,05:20

I am working on DSL-Thai extension. I do not want to translate all menu into Thai. All menu still show in English. All I need is I can read and type in Thai. Now, I can read Thai in Firefox browser. I can share with you what I am doing. It has 2 parts: display and input.

Display part, I used dsl-artwiz.tar.gz as a template for Thai bitmap fonts. I am using xfonts-thai-manop and xfonts-thai-nectec. For Japanese, you may use xfonts-ayu.
Input part, I can use Thai keymap and xiterm but it can use in terminal only. For Japanese, you need a Japanese-input program. If you do not want to create a new program, you may search for Japanese Debian input (DSL is based on Debian) by Google, Yahoo and http://packages.debian.org/. I heard that someone in Taiwan is using xcin for Chinese-input with DSL.

Now, I am working on how-to type in Thai in gaim. ... Hope this will help you. ... Good luck.

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