Re: [tlug] Japanese input on Debian Testing

[Mattia Dongili <malattia@example.com>]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:16:37PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Rant follows (not much help -- I don't mess with distro IM crap on
> Linux, I do it myself in XEmacs).
> 
> Daniel A. Ramaley writes:
> 
>  > A few weeks ago i was playing around, trying to figure out how to fix 
>  > this. In the process i discovered that if i set "LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8" 
>  > then Japanese input magically started working in (almost) all apps 
>  > again! 
> 
> I *cannot* believe that they haven't fixed this yet!  The POSIX locale
> should be a *hint* (and a very valuable one, because 99% of users are
> either monolingual or their other language is English == spellable
> with ASCII, but nevertheless *just* a hint).  This has been known to
> be broken for multilingual users since the early 1990s. :-(

my experience is that sun's (oracle's?) java has the problem,
open{jdk,jre} icedtea doesn't.

-- 
mattia
:wq!