Hello, I now have a working Japanese envoiroment, i had to hack it up a little to get it working, perhaps there are some improvements that can be made.
I followed these guides http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=1420&lang=en and an english guide for japanese as a second language http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stefanss/japanese/index.html setting up KDE and creating the config files. $ cat .i18n LC_TYPE=ja LANGUAGE=C LANG=ja_JP XIM=kinput2 XIM_PROGRAM=kinput2 XMODIFIERS="@im=kinput2" $ locale LANG=ja_JP LC_CTYPE=ja LC_NUMERIC=en_GB LC_TIME=en_GB LC_COLLATE=en_GB LC_MONETARY=en_GB LC_MESSAGES=en_GB LC_PAPER="ja_JP" LC_NAME="ja_JP" LC_ADDRESS="ja_JP" LC_TELEPHONE="ja_JP" LC_MEASUREMENT="ja_JP" LC_IDENTIFICATION="ja_JP" LC_ALL= if I export LC_ALL=ja that worked, but that was not an ideal solution, i wanted to keep my english time etc etc LC_CTYPE was always changed back from ja to en_GB:en when i got into X, i don not know where this was being set, eventually i just changed the system wide config as below $ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n SYSFONT=lat0-sun16 LC_CTYPE=ja LC_MONETARY=en_GB LANGUAGE=C LC_TIME=en_GB LC_NUMERIC=en_GB LC_COLLATE=en_GB LC_MESSAGES=en_GB LANG=ja_JP SYSFONTACM=iso15 anyone know where LC_CTYPE gets set? after my .i18n set to ja something changed it back! Well I have a working system now, well mozilla :) Advanced Editor does not work, well i suspect its the display of the text that is the problem. Perhaps there will be another installment of this email... some day.. or maybe mdk8.2 is going to be the thing for the job? I hope. So thank you for the help along the way. You should be able to read this then.. does the expert list have the headers changed to us-ascii? we will see. UTF-8 is all I use now. どもありがとございます JG James Sparenberg wrote: > Don't know if this helps, but while trying to make Mandrake7.0 speak > Korean I ran across this site. The guy is knee deep in > internationalizing linux to speak Japanese. > > http://tlug.linux.or.jp/craigoda/writings/linux-nihongo/ > > James > > PS to get some of the Korean working I "borrowed" heavily from a > couple of Korean distro's (download source and compile locally) maybe > that's the key here too. > > >
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