Japanese Support in Linux

jinksys · 10-10-2004, 07:22 AM

Simple question, Ive been able to add japanese support to my suse box by installing the kinput and canna packages and by changing my LC_CTYPE variable to ja_JP.UTF-8. But for some reason limewire starts up in japanese now, and its the only program that does it! Everything else acts normal and uses english. Any one have a similar problem?

quatsch · 10-11-2004, 01:24 PM

that can happen. Different programs look at different environment variables to figure out which language to use. I guess limewire looks at LC_CTYPE and decides to start in japanese. If you don't need to use japanese with limewire, you can start it with
env LC_ALL=en_US limewire

You can make approariate changes to the menu if you start it from the menus.

jinksys · 10-11-2004, 03:25 PM

Thanks! That worked!

daihard · 10-11-2004, 03:54 PM

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Originally posted by jinksys
Simple question, Ive been able to add japanese support to my suse box by installing the kinput and canna packages and by changing my LC_CTYPE variable to ja_JP.UTF-8. But for some reason limewire starts up in japanese now, and its the only program that does it! Everything else acts normal and uses english. Any one have a similar problem?

Just curious, which desktop environment are you using? If you're using Gnome, did your change make Gnome start in Japanese mode at all?

jinksys · 10-11-2004, 04:19 PM

Im using KDE. Everything works fine now, with the system using english but allowing me to write in japanese with CTRL-SPACE.

daihard · 10-11-2004, 10:22 PM

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Originally posted by jinksys
Im using KDE. Everything works fine now, with the system using english but allowing me to write in japanese with CTRL-SPACE.

I see. That sounds very good. I've always wanted to use the English system with just the Japanese language input support, but I've never been able to configure the system that way without making the default language Japanese at the install time.

So all you did was install SuSE with English as the primary language, and then install kinput2 and Canna (plus setting the environment variable)?

Thanks again,
Dai

jinksys · 10-11-2004, 11:36 PM

Yes, all I needed was the ability to input and view japanese text and it was pretty easy to do.
I installed the kinput2 and canna packages in Yast2, then I went into the sysconfig editor and
set LC_CTYPE to ja_JP.UTF-8 . I believe its in environment->language. After that I could press
SHIFT-SPACE to start up the conversion program. I later changed the button sequence since
SHIFT-SPACE got on my nerves.

daihard · 10-12-2004, 11:03 PM

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Originally posted by jinksys
Yes, all I needed was the ability to input and view japanese text and it was pretty easy to do.
I installed the kinput2 and canna packages in Yast2, then I went into the sysconfig editor and
set LC_CTYPE to ja_JP.UTF-8 . I believe its in environment->language.

Excellent! Thank you much for the detailed information. I will try that once I get a hold of SuSE, which I've been wanting to use but holding off.

I owe you one!
Dai

migero · 10-25-2004, 02:31 PM

hi there my first post here and new to suse
i have read this post and install all the rpms using yast -i pack name
but when i go to suseconfig RC_LC_CTYPE and type it says " config.. error
HELP ME