Comment Re:Japanese support? (Score 1) 416
I asked folks on the TLUG ("T" is for Tokyo) mailing list about distributions and Japanese a few years ago when I was getting started with Linux. Most people recommended Debian, and after having used it and a couple of others, I would agree. Debian has a number of very active Japanese developers, and includes everything that you'll need to get Japanese input / display working; just point dselect or apt to the packages you need and get cracking.
As for word processing, take a look at the lyx-cjk package.
I prefer vim for writing, but maybe I'm just old fashioned, but there are other japanese-dekiru editors out there, most notably the xemacs21-mule package.
You might have your father-in-law check out the TLUG pages as well:
http://www.tlug.gr.jp
best of luck to you
As for word processing, take a look at the lyx-cjk package.
I prefer vim for writing, but maybe I'm just old fashioned, but there are other japanese-dekiru editors out there, most notably the xemacs21-mule package.
You might have your father-in-law check out the TLUG pages as well:
http://www.tlug.gr.jp
best of luck to you
