[tlug] Re: locales

[Mike Fabian <mfabian@example.com>]

David Eduardo Gomez Noguera <davidgn@example.com> writes:

> On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 07:12, Mike Fabian wrote:
>> David Eduardo Gomez Noguera <davidgn@example.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Anyone know an utf8 locale that would let me use kinput to input
>> > japanese, and input other normal characters when not?
>> 
>> LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8
>> 
>> can be used to input Japanese via kinput2 and English as usual.
>> 
>> > Also, what X version would i need?
>> 
>> XFree86 4.2.0, there were some problems in XFree86 4.1.0 which
>> made kinput2 not work in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale. 
>> 
>> > And if you know if gnome works with it, would be great.
>> 
>
> Thank you. I think it worked, now i dont know what font to use.
> seems like i have no unicode japanese fonts. know where are anyone? i
> just see squares, even where i type.日本語.

What application are you trying to type in?

Can you give a few more details? Name of the application, version, ...

> I have Cyberbit bitstream, but it seems like its "config files" doesnt
> know it has japanese fonts too.


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