Help getting Japanese characters to display correct

R00ts · 03-12-2005, 08:20 PM

I can't figure out what I need to do to get Japanese characters to display correctly. They are displaying, but they are just boxes with 4 hexadecimal numbers in them and no matter what I try, the font just won't display. Here's what I have installed:

xfonts-intl-japanese - International fonts for X -- Japanese
xfonts-intl-japanese-big - International fonts for X -- Japanese big
uim - Simple, secure, and flexible input method collection and library
uim-common - Common files for uim
uim-fep - uim Front End Processor
uim-gtk2.0 - GTK+2.x immodule for uim
uim-utils - Utilities for uim
uim-xim - A bridge between uim and XIM

Uim IS working and I can input japanese just fine, but it still won't display right even though I have the fonts installed. I'm running wdm as my display manager. Does anyone have any clue on how I can get this working???

I am using this guide: http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/input.html and put the following in my .xinitrc file:

Code:

export XMODIFIERS=@im=uim
export GTK_IM_MODULE=uim
uim-toolbar-gtk-systray&
uim-xim&

Thanks for any assistance. ほんとうにありがとうございます。

foo_bar_foo · 03-12-2005, 09:10 PM

http://www.mayin.org/aragorn/Japan/linux.html

R00ts · 03-13-2005, 12:34 AM

Thanks, but that site is outdated. I had uim installed on my previous Debian system and it worked fine.

I think I found the problem though. I found out that those commands in my .xinitrc file weren't being run. Neither .xinitrc nor .xsession will run on start-up, and I think it's because I'm using WDM as my display manager. I'm a little confused as to what to do now. I found this directory:

Code:

roots@harima:~$ ls /etc/X11/wdm
Xaccess  Xreset_0    Xresources_0  Xsession  Xsetup_0  Xstartup_0  wdm.options
Xreset   Xresources  Xservers      Xsetup    Xstartup  wdm-config

And I thought Xsession might be a wrapper so I put those commands in there and re-booted, but when I logged in it said something bad about GTK_IM_MODULE and it would refuse to let me login, so I had to go and take out the commands from the file to get back into X. However, when I run those commands on my command line while I'm in X everything is fine...

Does anyone know what WDM file I should add these commands to?

>>>EDIT<<<
Nevermind, I found out I accidentally called set to set the environmental variables but it was a sh script. I can get into X fine now, but Japanese characters still refuse to display.

R00ts · 03-13-2005, 10:13 AM

*bump*

Anyone have a clue? I really need Japanese to display on this machine so I can do some work...

R00ts · 03-13-2005, 08:57 PM

I FIXED IT!!! I FINALLY FIXED IT!!! kissed 32 hours of my life good-bye, but it's working!!! YES!!! これはさいこうだぞ

The problem was in my XF86Config-4 file not specifying the correct font-path. I added these two lines before the unix local font server line:

Code:

        FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"

I hope this helps someone one day, because I asked on IRC ever 2 hours and no one responded to my pleas for help.

foo_bar_foo · 03-13-2005, 09:04 PM

cool

yea sadly must of us are rather clueless about internationalization issues