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In principle you may specify the <kbd>-font</kbd> configuration option on all
your <kbd>Button</kbd>, <kbd>Entry</kbd>, <kbd>Label</kbd>, <kbd>Message</kbd>,
<i>etc.</i> widgets. In addition to the Unix programs <i>xfontsel</i> and
<i>xlsfonts</i> you may find <i>xset</i> useful for determining and/or
specifying fonts - especially international ones.
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Kobayasi Hiroaki <kobayasi@sowa.is.uec.ac.jp> has converted
the Tcl/Tk "japanization" by <nisinaka@sra.co.jp> so that it may be
used with perl/Tk. It is presently available (the current README file
is in Japanese) from:
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<a href="ftp://ftp.sowa.is.uec.ac.jp/pub/Lang/perl5/Tk/Tk-b9.jp-a6.gz">ftp://ftp.sowa.is.uec.ac.jp/pub/Lang/perl5/Tk/Tk-b9.jp-a6.gz</a>
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From the author's own description:
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Currently, the "japanization patch for perl/Tk" enables:
[1] To show kanji & ASCII (by choosen kanji-font) in every widget.
[2] To edit kanji (double width of ASCII) correctly in Text & Entry.
[3] To support of Kanji Input method. (tkKinput.c)
[4] Automatic kanji-code-detection & conversion with 'insert/get'.
Supports: "JIS(Japanese Industrial Standard)", "MS-KANJI", "EUC".
& the patch lacks:
[5] by manual Kanji-code conversion. (JIS <=> MS-KANJI <=> EUC)
[6] 'Good' interface to specify kanji-code used in internal. (tkWStr.c)
[7] Documentation in English about [1-6].
# but, since interface-change is suspected in near future,
# documenting them is ...
I thought that[5-7] was not enough for world-people, but already worth
for natives. So I announced it on <a href="news:fj.lang.perl">"fj.lang.perl"</a>.
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