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Subject: Re: Where are the Japanese kanji dictionaries?
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Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull@turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:

> I went looking for the kana-kanji dictionaries for Quail (phonetic-to-
> ideographic conversion for Japanese), and couldn't find any files that
> looked big enough.  So I tried changing my input method to quail-ja (I
> normally use XIM/Canna), and it complained about not finding package 'kkc.
> I can't find it either, and it's not in the LEIM tarball for "Budapest".

 ...

> Is this a known problem?  I couldn't find it documented anywhere.

Been there, done that, took it out.

Quail/Ja is not suppported by XEmacs/Mule and probably won't be.  The
SKK dictioonary you are referring to is a single file that requires
over twice as much time to byte compile as it does to build all of
XEmacs starting from no .elcs.

You are better off using Canna or Wnn for Japanese input.  Emacs
requires Quail/Ja because it doesn't have those packages working yet.

If despite the warning you wish to fiddle with this anyway, I've put a 
copy of skkdic.el & skkdic.elc in the Attic on ftp.xemacs.org:
	ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/Attic/leim-skk.tar.gz

