Descriptions of the Current Directory
Netscape: You Know What It Is, Of Course.
[0] News
- Apr 12, 1998: Communicator-v4.05
with Egota's X-resource to
make everything Japanese, if kinput2 is v2fix4-2 or later
meaning that Honma's FilterEvent patch has been applied.
- Mar 26, 1998: Included a patch to show Japanese titles
properly in the mail/news header list window.
- Dec 16, 1997: The file retrieving dialog list directories and files
properly with the Nov. 26 version of the communicator.
- Dec 12, 1997: Revised the netscape wrapper to work around
a problem with the pervious one: preference windows never pop up.
- Dec 1, 1997: Japanese fontLists were set to use
Japanese fonts on pull-down bookmarks, etc (c.f. mklinux-jp 5978
by Yamaguchi and mklinux-jp 6019 by Katayama).
- Nov 14, 1997: netscape-v4.04 navigator re-retrieved
according to (mklinux-jp 5926). With this new binary package
you don't have to worry about XmTextField errors.
- Nov 12, 1997: netscape-v4.04 navigator for mklinux and
a shell wrapper to enable JAVA and Japanese lables on buttons
in the browser.
[1] Origin
- http://SunSITE.sut.ac.jp/pub/archives/WWW/netscape/communicator/4.05/development/english/unix/mklinux/
- /navigator_standalone/navigator-v405-export.ppc-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz
- /base_install/communicator-v405-export.ppc-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz
[2] Installation Procedure
If you want to install the stand-alone navigator, do:
- $ tar -zxvf <somewhere>/navigator-v405-export.ppc-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz
- $ su
- # less README.install
- # ./ns-install
- ......
- ...... I used the default settings!
- ......
or if you want the communicator, do the following instead:
- $ tar -zxvf <somewhere>/communicator-v405-export.ppc-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz
- $ su
- # less README.install
- # ./ns-install
- ......
- ...... I used the default settings!
- ......
Then you may install the japanization kit:
- # tar -zxvf <somewhere>/netscape-4.05-wrapper.tar.gz -C /
Note that the wrapper package contains a shared library
called "liblocale.so" which replaces the "setlocale" function in
"libc.so" by "_Xsetlocale"
in order to allow locales handling 2-byte
characters such as Japanese.
The "liblocale.so" is exactly the same thing that was
used to make HotJava show Japanese web pages.
Now you can try
- $ /usr/local/netscape/bin/netscape
Caution:
You have to preinstall the latest version of kinput2
if you are running the navigator with kinput2.
See this for installation instructions.
If you want to input Japanese Text with kinput2, you need to
install the latest X11R6.3.
See this for installation instructions.
[2] Known Problems
I could not succeeded in displaying Japanese bookmarks yet
(this problem was solved: see mklinux-jp 5978
by Yamaguchi and 6019 by Katayama).
I could not input Japanes characters into forms yet
(this problem was partially solved: see mklinux-jp 7958
by T.Oe and mklinux-jp 7962).
To input Japanese Text, you have to use the latest X11R6
(release 1n or later) and the latest kinput2 (v2fix4)
with Honma's FilterEvent patch.
You also have to do
- $ export XMODIFIERS="@im=kinput2"
before invoking Netscape.
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