Again on japanese input/support

leo · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 10:14 pm Post subject: Again on japanese input/support

Hi,

I followed the instructions posted by Kawada (thank you) to get japanese input/support working.

The problem is that, setting LANG to japanese, bash writes some messages as kanji (for example "total" when you do an "ls -l"). This is not what I want, how can I avoid it?

Thank you very much

leo

sa · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 450

you can set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in your .bashrc
and then start kinput2 like this from your .xinitrc.
LC_CTYPE=ja_JP /usr/X11R6/bin/kinput2 -canna &
you might need to creat the utf-8 locale like this:
localedef -c -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
have fun,
sa

leo · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 12:08 pm Post subject:

It does work very well!

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Leo

zhenlin · Veteran Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 1361

EUC-JP... Shouldn't that be in UTF-8? Perhaps something is broken in iconv.

leo · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 11:14 pm Post subject:

1) Why did it work good in my Konqueror window and now is unreadable?

Please remember that I'm new to multi-byte localization problems...

2) There is a little problem too: I'm native italian speaker, so I need to represent accents on characters (such as è à ò). If I set the LANG=it_IT in .bashrc this does not affect programs lauched by KDE panel, which refuses to represent such characters...

How can I manage this? I only need to write some japanese in texts and mails.

Thank you very much

Leo

sa · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 450

instead of LANG=it_IT you should try LANG=it_IT.UTF-8

hopefully this helps,
sa

leo · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 11:15 am Post subject:

No it does not change. Moreover I have to write

export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP
/usr/X11R6/bin/kinput2 -canna&

instead of

LC_CTYPE=ja_JP /usr/X11R6/bin/kinput2 -canna&

or it does not work.

sa · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 450

Ok, I remember something, I think you have to edit /etc/X11/app-defaults/Kinput2 and add some locales like this:

Miaowara · n00b Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 41

Sa, I've heard linux doesn't support inputting SJIS. Do you know if this is true? If it is true how does one go about doing it?

sa · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 450

I'm not sure, I dont seem to have a *.SJIS locale installed.
But I would think its possible, because /etc/X11/app-defaults/Kinput2 mentions ja_JP.SJIS as one of its default IMProtocol.locales. I think you would just need to start kinput2 like "LANG=ja_JP kinput2 -canna", but have your locale as ja_JP.SJIS.

I'll have to figure out how to get a sjis locale, then I'll get back to you.