[tlug] Re: Japanese under Linux

[Tobias Diedrich <ranma@example.com>]

dstibbe wrote:

> >Well, it only makes sense if kinput2 requires the string ja_JP in
> >LC_CTYPE to function.  And mine does not seem to require that at all.
> > 
> >
> Huh ...now your saying something completely different  than before .
> Before you said :
> "
> 
> If you set LANG to en_US.UTF-8 then setting LC_CTYPE to ja_JP.UTF-8
> doesn't make sense (since the encoding already is UTF-8).
> "

Well, from a locale point of view LC_CTYPE only sets the character set.
Since LANG already implies UTF-8 it doesn't make sense.
_But_ some Software (kinput2 or XIM) may check the string used in
LC_CTYPE, then it does make sense to specify it even if it is not
supposed to make a difference.

> Output of my 'date' command :
> 2004綛  7  2 9:46:12 AKDT
> 
> Doesn't seem like mojibake to me.

It certainly is mojibake.
It should look like this:
2004年  7月  2日 金曜日 13:43:44 CEST

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