Re: Hello, Japanese learners
- From: Phil Yff <phil.yff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:23:13 -0400
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:38:29 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
"TJ Edmister" <damage_x@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Hey now this is my kind of thread, maybe you can answer something for
me. I've been wondering how one deals with filenames that contain
kanji at the command line. (specifically on X68000 and win2k, but
maybe *nix is similar?)
I use 'scim' as an IME (with 'anthy' integrated for
kana-to-kanji). Any time I need to type Japanese, I turn on the IME
with its shortcut (I've chosen Ctrl+Space). This works for any program
at all in my windowing environment, command terminals are no
exception.
Programs have to be written so they don't make invalid assumptions
about "character == single-byte" or "character == ASCII character",
but that's true regardless of how you input the characters to them in
the first place.
If your operating system fails to come with smooth international
support, you may want to look into options which do.
One of the issues I believe is that to be truly international it has to be
unicode based. Unicode requires 32 bit support. Although modern operating
systems all purport to be 32 bit based, the fact of the matter is that the
ones that are upgraded from older versions still have a lot of imbedded 16
bit code. This was the main problem with Win2K. XP is much closer to a
true 32 bit operating system.
Mata ato de,
Phil Yff
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