[debian-users:38622] Re: Trying to help someone set up Japanese input in Debian.

[Tomohiro KUBOTA <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

From: Rob Browning <rlb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [debian-users:38620] Trying to help someone set up Japanese input in Debian.
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 02:50:04 +0900

> I do not speak Japanese, but I'm trying to set up a machine so that a
> friend who is learning Japanese will be able to at least compose email
> messages from emacs21 (21.3) using gnus (5.10.2).

Emacs21 does support Japanese.  I don't know about gnus.  To use
Japanese, we will have to check if the software supports multibyte
languages such as Japanese.

> I noticed a number of packages that looked like they might be
> relevant: canna, anthy, egg, and yc-el, but it was not clear to me
> which of these were required, or might be the best choices.

Please install language-env package and the documents therein.

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Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/