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Re: [tlug] Problem displaying Japanese chars on Linux



Thanks  BOTi,

I'll give that a go...

Rgds

Maarten
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "BOTi" <9915104t@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [tlug] Problem displaying Japanese chars on Linux


> Maarten Janson wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that when the Agent is started during boot of the
> > Japanese Linux machine and you point the browser on a Japanese windows
> > machine to it you see questionmarks. If I then stop the Agent on the
> > Linux machine and restart then the client displays proper Japanese
> > characters. I did some debugging and wrote a small java program
> > (test_resource.java) to display this behaviour, I have listed
> > test_resource.java below, together with the 2 properties files.
> >
> > If you run test_resource during boot (create S99Test in /etc/rc5.d and
> > have S99Test to run test_resource and redirect output to a file) then
> > you will see that the correct properties file is loaded and that the
> > english chars in the resource string appear fine but the japanese
> > chars appear as ????? If you then run test_resource from an xterm
> > window the the japanese chars display fine as well.
> 
> As someone already pointed it out before, you most probably need to set
> the locale before you start the Agent. Make a single shell script which
> does `export LC_ALL=ja_JP;  java classname.for.Agent` and call that from
> your initscripts.
> As you are using a Japanese distribution, the Japanese locale is
> probably set at a later stage that's why it works from a terminal.
> 
> > In test_resource I set the default Locale in order to make sure it is
> > set correctly (see bug ID4127375)
> 
> Most probably this is not enough.
> 
> 
> ps: I don't mind html mails but afaik some people on the list do, so if
> it's possible to set your M$ outlook to send plain text mails that would
> be great.
> 
> --
> B0Ti.
> 
> 
> 
> 

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