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Netscape: You Know What It Is, Of Course.

News

• Oct 20, 1998: Communicator-v4.5 released! A japanization kit was updated using Ohta's X-resource for Netscape-v45PRE1 with some modifications to work with communicator-v4.5 for MkLinux. Version 4.05 and its corresponding wrapper have been moved to the old directory. If you have any trouble with version 4.5, try them instead.
• Sep 23, 1998: netscape-4.05-wrapper.tar.gz revised.
  Modified to work with the official JRPM version of kinput2 which is now equipped with Honma's FilterEvent patch and built in a different packaging scheme. The defect was pointed out by Matsuura at Osaka Univ. Thanks a lot!
• Aug 20, 1998: netscape-4.05-wrapper.tar.gz revised.
  Modified to work with kinput2-v2fix5 or later. If you are using v2fix4 or earlier, you don't have to update the wrapper.
• Jun 22, 1998: netscape-4.05-wrapper.tar.gz revised.
  This version now allows LANG=ja_JP.SJIS. You can now move the wrapper contents of /usr/local/netscape to wherever you installed the communicator or navigator: previous version assmed that the navigation had been installed in /usr/local/netscape.
  Note that to input Japanese text using kinput2 requires

  i) kinput2-v2fix4 with Honma's FilterEvent patch.

  ii) X11R6.3*-1n or later.

• 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.

Files

	communicator-v45-export.ppc-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz : the communicator
	netscape-4.5-wrapper.tar.gz                         : the Japanization kit
	README.html                                         : this file
        old                                                 : directory containingold versions

Origin

http://SunSITE.sut.ac.jp/pub/archives/WWW/netscape/communicator/4.5/english/unix/unsupported/mklinux/

/complete_install/communicator-v45-export.ppc-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz

Installation Instructions

$ tar -zxvf <somewhere>/communicator-v45-export.ppc-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz

$ cd communicator-v45.ppc-unknown-linux2.0/

$ su

# less README.install

# ./ns-install

......

...... I used the default settings!

......

Then you may install the japanization kit:

# tar -zxvf <somewhere>/netscape-4.5-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 X11R6.3*-1n or later.

Known Problems

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"

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