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Everything Else => Zaurus Distro Support and Discussion => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => Sharp ROMs => Topic started by: bobo12345 on August 30, 2004, 07:07:07 am
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Hi all,
I am looking for some files mentioned here:
http://externe.net/zaurus/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1430 (http://externe.net/zaurus/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1430)
They are: japanese-dict_1.0_arm.ipk and japanese-support_1.0_arm.ipk
These files put back the Japanese stuff from the original ROM.
I can't find them on the net. If anyone has a copy, I would appreciate if you could make them available.
Thank you very much.
My goal: full Japanese support, and also Cyrillic support (I want to use Cacko because it supports Cyrillic input). I can't get Cyrillic input working on the original ROM. I have a SL-C860 purchased from Japan.
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I have them. I tried them on an older Cacko ROM once, and it didn't work as in the Sharp ROM, so I'm not using Cacko (but perhaps you have more success). I could try to upload them here, but as they're 22 MB together, I wont do that now.
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I have them. I tried them on an older Cacko ROM once, and it didn't work as in the Sharp ROM, so I'm not using Cacko (but perhaps you have more success). I could try to upload them here, but as they're 22 MB together, I wont do that now.
I have some web space, if you don't mind uploading. I will leave them up for other users. If OK, I can PM you with the details.
I am not sure what the rules of this forum are - whether you're allowed to upload such big files.
Thank you very much.
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Hm...
I would be very interestet in these files!
Has anyone of you exult and scumm running together with the software i mentioned?
Christian
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bobo12345: I don't mind the uploading, it was just that I didn't (and don't, at the moment) have time to find out how uploading works here etc. If you send me a message with your server info, I'll upload it there, probably even sometime this week :).
Cryssli: You haven't mentioned any software yet (in this thread :)
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U might want to add the translator files in too.
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@cybersphinx
Uh.. oh.. sorry. I post a similar request/question in another forum )
Cryssli
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for those interested. the files are now located here:
http://www.morosoph.org/zaurus/japanesesupport/ (http://www.morosoph.org/zaurus/japanesesupport/)
Thanks to cybersphinx
Some info regarding these files can be found here:
http://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/computing/handheldc700.html (http://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/computing/handheldc700.html)
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I´ve mirrored these two files here:
http://www.cryss.net/zaurus/japanesesuppor...ict_1.0_arm.ipk (http://www.cryss.net/zaurus/japanesesupport/japanese-dict_1.0_arm.ipk)
and here:
http://www.cryss.net/zaurus/japanesesuppor...ort_1.0_arm.ipk (http://www.cryss.net/zaurus/japanesesupport/japanese-support_1.0_arm.ipk)
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>>How long will they be offered there? Will you make updates?
I will leave them up indefinitely.
As for updates, I am a linux newbie so I wouldn't know where to start.
If I get all the Japanese stuff working OK on Cacko ROM, I will document the procedure on my website for the next newbie.
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Would be cool
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As far as I know what's in those files comes directly from the Sharp ROM. So unless Sharp updates it, or makes the source available (and both seems unlikely), there isn't much to update (except perhaps some packaging issues).
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Does I have to switch to japanese language?
I only get squares e.g. when choose a dict in Jisho.
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Don't know if that was the problem, but like I said, I couldn't get the japanese support to work satisfactorily on Cacko, so I just use the Sharp ROM.
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Does I have to switch to japanese language?
I only get squares e.g. when choose a dict in Jisho.
This probably means you don't have a Japanese font installed (I don't know the exact contents of the japanese-support ipk, so I don't know if there's one installed). In any case you can install one such as unismall (search the downloads section or ZSI for it), make sure the app in question is set to use it, and you should be good to go.
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Here's something I posted in another thread (What would you like to see in Cacko 1.22 ROM?... (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=6471&st=135)):
The process of re-adding Japanese support is extremely simple:
1. install japanese-support_1.0_arm.ipk (see linked thread mentioned in my last post)
2. in Settings, use the Language panel to switch the system locale to Japanese
3. run Stubear's conversion script, which will restore English menus and icon names (while maintaining the Japanese locale). This way, you will have English menus and such again, but still have the ability to install and use Japanese software. A version of Stubear's script is available here (http://www.wbcd.org/zaurus/convert.sh).
Steps 2 and 3 can be done in either order... probably better to do step 3 first if you can't read any Japanese.
The only issue that remains is the ctrl/alt issue (see previous post). If you don't want to mess with the kernel, you might be able to restore the functionality of the kanji/kana keys using keyhelper, if you can determine the proper key names.
Someone want to make this into a faq? This question seems to come up quite a bit.
- ashikase
anpachi, gifu, japan
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My only issue now, after doing the Japanese text upgrade, is that there's no clear way to input with Japanese text. Even if you use the onscreen selector to choose your input method, there are many times where it just won't switch to Japanese, or (on some very rare instances) English.