Whois command and Japanese

["C. Oda" <craig@example.com>]

Hi,
when I execute the whois command on Linux, it works fine under
English, but I can't get it to work in a kterm in Japanese. 

I want to do two things:

	1) be able to display the output of the whois command in
		Japanese - for example

	   whois twics.co.jp@example.com

 	2) set the default to nic.ad.jp instead of rs.internic.net


Does anyone know the minimum I have to install to get this?

REgards,
Craig


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