Re: [Evolution] sjis / addressbook

[shawn <kcat koyuru com>]

Thanks for the help.

Am on Evo 1.2.

Yes, it's impossible to be in Japan without getting email from
cellphones, and needing to send mail to them.  Fact of life here.

Haven't gotten around to composing yet.  Tough to reply without seeing
the message first.  Will try kinput2 and canna when I do.

Shawn

On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 01:28, Stuart Luppescu wrote:
> On 日, 2002-12-29 at 21:45, shawn wrote:
> > I get e-mail in Japanese but can't read them using encoding=sjis.  I
> > noticed that if I boot linux into Japanese it works.  Unfortunately I
> > need to work in English except for those messages.
>
> First of all, you should tell us what version of evolution, what
> distribution, and what you're using for kana-kanji conversion. If you're
> using Evo 1.2.x I'm afraid I can't help you -- I'm in the same boat.
> I've already filed bug #36049 about this problem. If you're using 1.0.8,
> try this to read and compose Japanese email, while retaining English
> menus, etc.
>
> LANG=en_US 
> LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.ujis 
> LC_MESSAGES=en_US 
> XMODIFIERS="@im=kinput2" 
>
> export LANG LC_CTYPE LC_MESSAGES XMODIFIERS
>
> kinput2 -canna&
> evolution
>
> This assumes you're using canna and kinput2. If you're using something
> else, you're on your own.
>
> BTW, why are you using Shit-JIS? Are your correspondents sending you
> email from cellphones? The preferred encodings are iso-2022-jp and
> euc-jp.
-- 
shawn <kcat koyuru com>