said:
Hi,
>I've read about codepages,
>DEVINFO commands, GRAFTABL commands and more. I think I understand the
>meaning of each but I'm not sure what the overall method is supposed to
>be.
That's good, but none of this applies to PM apps or the Mozilla apps.
These are all hold overs from the days of DOS and text mode applications.
>need for her to be able to see Japanese characters on screen and use the
>keyboard to enter characters in hopefully standard way.
Entering characters is problematic. It requires something known as an
Input Method Editor (IME). Alex Taylor released one recently
http://www.cs-club.org/~alex/programming/os2/#imerj
Displaying characters is a different issue.
>At least the
>successful display of characters can be seen in the following web page:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enabling_East_Asian_characters
To display this page correctly, you need to have the fonts that support
the glyphs installed. This means you need at least one Unicode font
installed.
>Apparently, I'm
>not .. but what is the method?
With the appropriate fonts installed, the display should be correct.
FWIW, my setup is not quite correct. The wiki page does not display
everything correctly, but
http://www.city.kyoto.lg.jp/
displays just fine.
>I was sure to
>install international fonts (I assume this is connect to DBCS support
>but is probably not enough)
DBCS is pretty much irrelvant to the web. It's only used by DBCS
compliant OS/2 native applications. Almost everything on the web these
days is UTF-8, which is an encoding for Unicode fonts.
You do need the Unicode fonts installed.
>I tired going to the Country
>Palette but that doesn't seem helpful by itself.
Not for what you are trying to do.
>I enabled Japanese
>character display in her copy of Firefox (in Options) but that is not
>sufficient (although probably required).
It is usually sufficient. Does the link I provided display correctly?
>Is it a matter of having the
>right CONFIG.SYS?
No.
>Do I need a separate copy of CONFIG.SYS, one for
>normal English operation and one for when she needs to practice her
>Japanese?
No, but you might need a DBCS version of OS/2 installed to enter Japanese
characters.
Regards,
Steven
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