Hi, From: "Marco d'Itri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: need help for l10n issue Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 17:33:22 +0200
> I need some input from Japanese users: how can I check in a VERY SIMPLE > way if the console works with japanese characters[1]? At first, you need a file written in Japanese characters. Since there are three codesets in Japan you have to prepare three files. For example, install user-ja package and gunzip /usr/share/doc/user-ja/README.jis. This file is written in JIS (aka ISO-2022-JP) Japanese code. If it is displayed correctly, you can read a character like: * * * ********** * * * * * ******* * * * * * * *** * (vertical line at the left of the character, horizonal line at the top of the rest space, vertical line with circle-like shape, which cross the horizonal line) next to 'user-ja' and a space at the first line. The end of the line is a small circle. Use 'cat' or 'head' to display. 'less' and so on may affect the code. (or may not. I don't know.) Next, you have to check another two codes. One is EUC-JP and the another is SHIFT-JIS (aka MS KANJI). Install nkf package (text section). $ nkf -e README.jis >README.euc $ nkf -s README.jis >README.sjs makes README.euc in EUC-JP codeset and README.sjs in SHIFT-JIS codeset. Check these files in the same way as README.jis. I think it is impossible to display EUC-JP and SHIFT-JIS at the same time because their code spaces overlap. BTW, what are you making? --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
