Re: [tlug] Japanese Charactersets: In the commandline and in Samba (aka. mounting a japanese windows drive)

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

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On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:12:53AM +0900, David Bennett wrote:
> Good morning!
> 
> 
> (1) I chose "Japanese fonts" etc. in the graphical installation when I
> was installing FC4. The fonts seemed to display OK, but I never was
> able to figure out how to input Japanese characters. Since I usually
> only use the command line this has never been much of a problem. In
> the command line however, I can never get Japanese characters to
> display. They come up as question marks etc. How do I get Japanese
> characters to display on the command line (mostly when dealing with
> files, but in general would be ok. How to input on the command line
> would also be supper. I have a number of input editors installed and
> they seem to be "running" so perhaps I am just missing a hotkey to
> turn them on.)


There used to be, in RH 7.x at least, (and other distros) a program
called kon.  (It might be called kon2)  I don't have a Fedora install
here to test if yum has it but I would think it should still be
available. (It might be called kon2)

It's an easy way to get Japanese to disply in console--type kon at the
command prompt and IIRC it's sort of like a framebuffer screen.  

I haven't used it in a long time, so there are no guarantees on this.  

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