Re: some questions about GTK2

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <taw users sf net>]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 10:49:38AM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> Tomasz Wegrzanowski <taw users sourceforge net> writes:
> 
> > I have some questions about GTK2.
> > 
> > 1.
> > What is state of Japanese input support ?
> > I see that rendering works well, but Japanese is not
> > among Input methods listed (gtk-demo, all installed from .debs).
> > Should I install some additional things to make it work ?
> 
> If you:
>  
>  a) Have a working input method setup
>  b) Set your locale to ja_JP
>  
> Then it should just work. (The entry in the menu
> is "X Input Method", and it will be selected automatically
> for CJK languages.)

Well, the point is in using input method w/o changing locale
I don't really want to have all messages in Japanese,
just to be able to write some simple things.
If I can write Hangul or Cyrilic simply by chosing right
option in "Input Methods" menu, why not Japanese this way ?