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GtKali Japanese localization patch

Last Update: 3rd Jun, 2003

1. Over View

Kali is a communication tool which wrap IPX protocol by TCP/IP protocol for communication games which doesn't support TCP/IP. It also support IRC like chat function and serching game server function. But almost all rescent games are support TCP/IP by itself, so Kali's IPX wrapping function already doesn't have meaning.

Linux version of kali only supports chat, however, by the above mentioned reason, since the windows version is also used only for the chat function now, it is still meaningful for GNU/Linux user. But it cannot display and input Japanese, so I created a patch.

Since original version isn't already maintained，and there are only a few persons who need it include me, so I have no plan to feedback this patch to original author.

2. Required

Original gtkali-1.0.0: gtkali-1.0.0.tar.gz
this patch: gtkali-1.0.0-jp1.patch
kali account (charge)

Here is an old version. (Source: gtkali-0.9.5.tar.gz， Patch: gtkali-0.9.5_jp.patch)

3. Compile and Install

You can comile and install it by following command:

 $ tar xvfz gtkali-x.y.z.tar.gz
 $ cd gtkali-x.y.z/
 $ patch -p1 < ../gtkali-x.y.z-jp?.patch
 $ ./configure
 $ make
 $ su
 (password)
 # make install

Please replace the version number suitably.

4. Usage

Please set the font setting to Japanese font. It cannot display Japanese by default font correctly.

There are still a several functions which isn't implemented as GUI. If you want to use these functions, you must type the command by hand. Please type "/help" for details.

5. ChangeLog

2000/7/5: Updated to gtkali-1.0.0 base.; Modified ShiftJIS < - > EUC conversion using iconv().
2000/7/1: gettextize.; Implement ShiftJIS < - > EUC conversion (using modified libjcode).

6. Links

kali.net: Official site of Kali. We can get kalinix which is a command line based kalinix from here.
GtKali -- gtk+ based Kali client: Gtk+ based kalinix.

Takuro Ashie

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