Additional Language Support

Ironica · 12-28-2004, 12:10 PM

Hey guys,
I built LFS and installed XFree86 and Gnome. But right now, I need support for Japanese and Korean languages. I need the fonts and IMEs. I have searched, but didn't manage to find anything useful.

Language support is something I haven't really played with before, so I'm not really sure what to do. I was hoping someone could give some advice, or direct me to a howto or something. Any help is appreciated =)

beagle2 · 01-08-2005, 02:15 PM

Dunno if this is any use but for kde you look for packages like kde-i18n-fi for finnish or ja for japanese. Maybe something similar for gnome.

linuxphoenix · 01-24-2005, 11:27 PM

Refer to the following URL:
http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/i18n/iiimf-faq.html

Download the necessay bitmap fonts from fedora core 3 mirrors.
(e.g. for chinese, korean & jap: bitmap-fonts-cjk-0.3-4.noarch.rpm)

logout & login again.

If you need to input as well as read additional languages, you'll need to download and install the iiimf***rpm from the fedora core 3 mirrors.

Hope it helps.

JDW · 02-28-2005, 03:03 PM

hi ironica,

for LFS you could try SCIM (http://sourceforge.net/projects/scim) and download the source packages (after all, that's what LFS is all about!) - however, you would need to ensure that you have Unicode environment (like ko_KR.UTF-8 etc.) for SCIM to work. This should keep you busy!

let us know how you go, this is something I want to try with LFS/BLFS 6.0, if only there were more hours in the day...LFS is time consuming...

jdw