Re: [tlug] Abiword and Japanese

["Niels Kobschaetzki" <n.kobschaetzki@example.com>]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 07:50:45PM +0100, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:

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>  > Abiword will only show ° when I type Japanese (not using a dedicated
>  > font for Japanese) or just white space when using a font for Japanese.
>  > Any ideas what the problem could be?
>
>  I would try running it from terminal with something like
>  XMODIFIERS='@im=SCIM' LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 abiword
>
>  Abiword and OpenOffice can be picky with Japanese in FreeBSD.  I usually
>  have to move from en_US.UTF-8 to ja_JP.UTF-8 for openoffice to work.

It works even w/out the fix mentioned by you. The font mikachan and
bitstream cyberbit are showing stuff as wished and therefore it seems
to be a pure font-issue. I installed several japanese fonts (like
Watanabe Mincho) but it seems that not all are working :(

Niels *who likes the tinker factor of OSS-OS but knows again why he
once switched to OS X*