Hi,
I'm new to Zaurus (2 days) & Qtopia. In these two days some questions arose, most of which I was able to answer myself. Some questions remain:
#1
Is there a way to display/insert German umlauts or accented characters (like é) in the console window (Terminal or QKonsole)? I got keyhelper to insert the right characters in qte applications but the console seems to be quite stubborn. I guess it has to do with missing or inappropriate fonts. Is there a monospace font ipk around that has these "international" characters (as used in an European context) available? Also is there a font that can display mc's borders correctly? Or is this a totally different problem unrelated to fonts?
#2
What text editors do you use? Up to now I found: vim (for console only), (x)emacs (not tested yet), zeditor (appears to be ok), yedit (ok too), textedit (that came with the zaurus, quite basic), viviscript (scintilla-based, looks very promising, but I can't find out how to make the interaction window that takes half of the screen go away). I would prefer vim but because of problem #1 it's currently not usable. Is there a gtk+-based vim for xqt which I haven't had the chance to test yet?
#3
Is there a way to reset/restart the GUI only? Without rebooting everything? Or: when I change a configuration file like Settings/locale.conf, what is the minimal step to make the gui be aware of this change?
#4
How do I kill processed without refraining to the console? Can this be done from within the gui?
#5
This one is slightly off topic, but anyway: I figured that I could learn some Japanese characters that sometimes pop up when using loosly internationalized programs. I guess the meaning of these Japanese snippets is most often quite trivial like "no permission", "cancelled", and the like. So I guess I wouldn't have to actually learn Japanese to understand the significance of most of these tokens. Does somebody have a tip where to start? Does somebody know of a collection of computer-relevant Japanese characters? What are your experiences with such efforts to learn only some of Japanese?
Tom.
