Re: [tlug] help w/japanese

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Jack" == Jack Morgan <yojack@example.com> writes:

    Jack> I'm having trouble getting japanese to display in an
    Jack> xterm/mlterm.

xterm don't do Japanese.  It will do UTF-8, which may be good enough.
See below.  mlterm I don't know about.

    Jack> If I try export LANG=ja_JP mutt, I get mojibake menu's.

Have you tried ja_JP.eucJP and/or ja_JP.utf8?

    Jack> I suspect it's a font issue bacuse even doing ls -al in
    Jack> mlterm displays "05-17" for month/day and not the kanji
    Jack> equivalent.

Erh, if you think you need an explicit LANG for mutt, I would presume
that means that mlterm was not executed with LANG set?  What does echo
$LANG tell you in a fresh mlterm?

    Jack> I know I have fonts:

    Jack> # xlsfonts |grep jisx

    Jack> gives me the same output as Mike Fabian's page:

For xterm, you also need a sane set of iso10646 fonts.  I think the
adobe and b&h fonts are irrelevant.  I'm not sure which of the
following do Japanese, probably unifont and fixed-*-ja.

$ xlsfonts | fgrep iso10646
-gnu-unifont-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso10646-1
-gnu-unifont-medium-r-normal--16-160-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--0-0-100-100-c-0-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-bold-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-o-normal--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-o-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--0-0-100-100-c-0-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-ja-0-0-100-100-c-0-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-ko-0-0-100-100-c-0-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso10646-1
-mutt-clearlyu alternate glyphs-medium-r-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-iso10646-1
-mutt-clearlyu pua-medium-r-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-iso10646-1
-mutt-clearlyu-medium-r-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-iso10646-1



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