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Japanized Tkmail

News

• Jul 10, 1999: jp-tkmail-4.0beta9-2i
  Bug fix.
• Jun 16, 1999: jp-tkmail-4.0beta9-2f
  Updated the japanese patch to avoid the missing closing brace problem.
• Jun 13, 1998: jp-tkmail-4.0beta9-2e
  Moved kinput2-related bindings to tkbind/kinput2.tcl so that personal setting is unnecessary.
• May 17, 1998: jp-tkmail-4.0beta9-2d
  Rebuilt with pre-DR3.
• Dec 21, 1997: jp-tkmail-4.0beta9-2C
  Fixed a problem with mails having no subjects and rebuilt with DR2.1update6.
• Oct 24, 1997: jp-tkmail-4.0beta9-2B
  Fixed a problem in forwading messages and rebuit with DR2.1update5.
• Sep 29, 1997: jp-tkmail-4.0beta9-2A
  Fixed the misalignment of sender names in the list window, when the names contain kanji characters with some single byte characters interleaved.
• Sep 26, 1997: A bug fixed.
• Sep 24, 1997: jp-tkmail-4.0beta9-1A
  the first beta version of japanized tkmail-4.0beta9 which now enables iso-2022-jp encoding and decoding for header fields. See japanization notes below for details.
• Jun 10, 1997: a very preliminary version of japanized tkmail-4.0beta8 which only allows Japanese text editing with kinput2.

Files

   	SOURCES                       : patches
   	SPECS                         : package building specs
   	jp-tkmail-4.0beta9-2i.ppc.rpm : binary package
    	jp-tkmail-4.0beta9-2i.src.rpm : source package
  	README.html                   : this file
   	

Precaution: This is STILL beta

Installation Instructions

# ls

jp-tcltk-7.6p2_4.2p2-2b.ppc.rpm

# rpm -Uvh jp-tcltk-7.6p2_4.2p2-2b.ppc.rpm

# ls

jp-tkmail-4.0beta9-2i.ppc.rpm

# rpm -qpl jp-tkmail-4.0beta9-2i.ppc.rpm

If you are satisfied with the contents of the package: proceed to

$ su

# rpm -Uvh jp-tkmail-4.0beta9-2i.ppc.rpm

Caution: If you have already the previous version of tkmail-4.0, you have to edit your .tkmail4rc in your home directory:

$ vi ~/.tkmail4rc

.....

set mf(headlist-format) {%-20.20F %3m %2d %-5.5h %4l %-1000.1000s}

.....

$ cp /usr/local/lib/tkmail4/example.tkmail4rc ~/.tkmail4rc

Now you are ready to try it by typing:

$ tkmail4

Note Added
If you get an error message telling that tkmail couldn't find "blt_bell", replace "blt_bell 80" by "bell" in ~/.tkmail4rc.

Japanization Notes

• Compiler Flags

  Compile tkmail using japanized tcl/tk with -DKANJI and -DKINPUT2 flags activated:

  $ vi Config.mk

  CFLAGS = -O -DKANJI -DKINPUT2

  TK_INC = -I/usr/local/include

  TCL_INC =

  TK_LIB = -L/usr/local/lib -ltk4.2jp -ljpeg

  TCL_LIB = -ltcl7.6jp -lm

• Modified Scripts

  $ vi scripts/tkmail

  kanji internalCode JIS

  $ vi scripts/viewer.tcl

  set mf(headlist-format) {%-20.20F %3m %2d %-5.5h %4l %-1000.1000s}

  source $mfp(bindlib)/kinput2.tcl

  $ vi scripts/compose.tk

  A lot of changing related to iso2022jp encoding or decoding for subject and from field such as:

  set cursubj [mfv_util jpdecode "$cursubj"]

  set subject [mfv_util jpencode "$subject"]

  set fromline [mfv_util jpencode $fromline]

  $ vi tkbind/kinput2.tcl

  # For Japanese Input

  bind Text {kinput_start %W over}

  bind Text {kinput_start %W over}

  bind Text {kinput_start %W over}

  bind Entry {kinput_start %W}

  bind Entry {kinput_start %W}

  bind Entry {kinput_start %W}

• Modified C Source Code (mfv.c)

  Modified to allow iso-2022-jp handling:

  Mfv_GetSumLine

  Mfv_MakeFmtLine

  Mfv_SetCmd

  Mfv_FilterHeaders

  Mfv_FolderCmd

  Mfv_UtilCmd

  Added newly to allow iso-2022-jp handling:

  Mfv_Iso2022jpEncode

  Mfv_Iso2022jpDecode

  Mfv_Base64Encode

  Mfv_FieldWidth

• Known Problems

  When "fullname" or "subject" or both are truncated in making header summary (Mfv_GetSumLine), escape sequence is discarded. This confuses "wish" that it is still getting wide characters. At this moment, I fixed the name field width to "nameWidth" characters, which can be changed between 10 to 92 as follows:

  set mf(headlist-format) {%-20.20F %3m %2d %-5.5h %4l %-1000.1000s}

  Notice that the width of the format field is fixed to 5.

  Notice that the field width has to depend on whether the name field contains Japanese or not, since in sprintf, escape sequences are also counted as characters.

  JP-Width = En-Width + 7

  The width given in set mf(headlist-format) is En-Width.

  As for the problem with "subject", I employed a brute-force solution that is to set the field long enough in viewer.tcl:

  set mf(headlist-format) {%-20.20F %3m %2d %-5.5h %4l %-1000.1000s}

  This should also be improved in future.

• Jp-Patch

  If you are really interested in or suspicious about what I have done, take a look at the patch itself:

  tkmail-4.0beta9p1-jp0.4.patch

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