Japanese Input plugin for SquirrelMail
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Ver 1.1, 2007/02/02

Original author: Paul Lesniewski <paul@squirrelmail.org>


Description
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This plugin allows users to compose emails using Japanese
characters, even when they are using a computer that does
not have a Japanese input system.  Note that the server
running SquirrelMail ideally should still be able to support
multibyte character sets, results may vary otherwise.

The user must turn on this plugin's functionality by going
to the Options->Display Preferences and turning on the 
"Show Japanese Input Button" setting.  After doing so, a 
"Japanese" button will appear on the compose screen, from 
which Japanese text may be entered.

Note that this plugin is based on a tool called JavaScript 
Japanese Input Module written by Kitya Karlson, and is not
intended as a replacement for an O/S-based Japanese input 
system.  That said, it can be extremely useful for sending
Japanese emails from computers without native support for
doing so.

See:
http://www.karlson.ru/jstoys/index.php?module=input_ja



License
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This plugin is released under the GNU General Public
License (see the file COPYING for details).



Requirements
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  * SquirrelMail version 1.2 or above



Help Requests
=============

Help requests are welcome at my personal email address, but I
request that you first post to the SquirrelMail Plugins mailing
list, where you'll get faster help from more people and other
people with the same problem will be able to see how your issue
was resolved.  If you don't get good answers that way, you may
try emailing me directly.

Info about the SquirrelMail Plugins mailing list can be found
on the SquirrelMail web site.  It is currently located at:

http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/squirrelmail-plugins
squirrelmail-plugins@lists.sourceforge.net



Change Log
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  v1.1  2007/02/02  Paul Lesniewski <paul@squirrelmail.org>
   * Minor updates for new plugin standards and miscellaneous cleanup
   * Added compatibility with SquirrelMail 1.5.2+ (might not be
     compatible with 1.5.0 and 1.5.1)
   * Moved translations into SquirrelMail locale directory

  v1.0  2004/02/25  Paul Lesniewski <paul@squirrelmail.org>
   * Initial version with version 0.1 of the Japanese Input Module package

