Re: [tlug] help regarding japanese fonts in redhat 9 Shrike

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 05:49:45PM +0530, Vamsi Krishna wrote:
> Thank you very much for the reply.
>  

Hi Vamsi,

Firstly, one quick thing.  Please don't top post--that is, don't post
above the letter you're answering.  Also, please make an attempt to trim
the parts of the previous email that we don't need anymore.  Both these
things are considered standard on most technical lists.  

The best way to post is inline--that is, answer point A under point A
and point B under point B.  This way, it's more like a conversation.



> As you said "However, it might not work in the default gnome terminal."
> I am using the same gnome terminal. So which terminal should we use, and if so
> it should work in the normal textpads or open office. Its not working there
> also.

Again, not having used RH for awhile, I can't be 100 percent sure, but
most of the time, these things will work in uxterm. 

Sometimes, (this is just one of those odd things that I've never
bothered to troubleshoot) if you set the environment stuff (the LC_CTYPE
and the like) in a gnome terminal, it doesn't carry over to the next
terminal.  So, let's take this from the beginning.  

I would stick with scim-anthy if at all possible. 

I would open a terminal. 


See how RH labels UTF-8.

locale -a | grep ja_JP

I think it will return, among others

ja_JP.utf8  

If it does, follow the below instructions.  If it gives something like

ja_JP.UTF-8  use that instead. 

Make sure that you have scim.

which scim



See if scim is running

pgrep scim

You should get back 4-5 lines of numbers.  If you get nothing back then
do

scim -d

You should see that it is starting up.  If it does so, confirm that it's
running with pgrep scim again. 

If you have that, from a gnome-terminal type

uxterm

A different terminal will open up.  In that terminal, type the following

export XMODIFIERS='@example.com=SCIM'
export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.utf8


Open another uxterm
In that one, make sure that these environment variables have been
exported.

echo $XMODIFIERS  $LC_CTYPE

You should get back the @example.com=SCIM and the ja_JP.utf8

Hit ctl+space, and see if a little widget opens up on the lower right.
If it does, it means scim-anthy is working.  The little widget, if it
doesn't show hiragana or kanji there, should, if you click on it, give
you the opportunity to choose Japanese.


Please perform all of these steps and let us know the results.
Remember, use inline posting, that is, tell us what happened in step one
below step one, etc.    



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