Re: [tlug] Re: EeePC so far

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

Jim Breen writes:
 > 2009/2/9 Mattia Dongili <malattia@example.com>:
 > 
 > > what usually does the trick for me is setting
 > >  LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8
 > > but honestly I have no idea if this is going to be enough, it usually
 > > takes me a random number of steps to get there.
 > >
 > > Just try it from a console:
 > >  LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 uxterm
 > > (uxterm or gedit or gvim, you choose ;))
 > 
 > Still no action.

The original design of XIM requires an XMODIFIERS setting as well.
Maybe

XMODIFIERS=@example.com LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 uxterm

 > I don't want to switch to a general Japanese locate.

Well, try it and see if things work (if you haven't done it already).
If it does work, you know it's a locale issue.