problem for display chinese in gedit

zauberliu · 01-27-2010, 07:44 AM

Hi everybody,
Here is a very strange thing. First, I have used Chinese simplified language as default language, at that time I can use gedit to open some chinese file, also at panel of gedit, there were Chinese like open blah blah.
After I closed it and open it again, strange things happened, there were no Chinese words at panel , and could not display Chinese.....

Later, i have tried to logout session and login with Gnome session and set the default language as Chinese. This time, file names , program names can be showed in Chinese perfectly, somehow for gedit, nothing has changed, and English panel, no Chinese can be displayed.

Could anybody help me for that? Any suggestion?

rikijpn · 01-31-2010, 06:53 AM

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Could anybody help me for that? Any suggestion?

Use smaller fonts, those fonts are huge.
It doesn't matter what language (as long as you have the fonts for it), if you started the x session (if using gnome, probably gdm?) with a locale (language), everything supporting it will be shown in that language.

What Linux distribution are you using?

If you have problems with your X session, maybe you should start specific programs by the terminal.
1) Choose a locale:

Code:

locale -a

I use Japanese, so I'd choose ja_JP.utf8 or something.
2) Run the program like, LANG="chosen_locale" program_name. For example:

Code:

LANG=ja_JP.utf8 gedit &

So, if you close your gnome-panel (you can do that in gnome-session-properties by removing gnome-panel and clicking on apply), and do

Code:

 LANG="chosen_locale" gnome-panel &

your panel would be in the chosen language too.

mark_alfred · 01-31-2010, 10:40 AM

Just a shot in the dark, but maybe installing scim and scim-pinyin would help. Also, the package canna helps with Japanese letters (I don't know if canna does anything for Chinese letters, though). Make sure you've got some Chinese fonts, like xfonts-intl-chinese, installed, too. Note: I'm referencing Debian packages here, but I'm sure the packages in whatever distribution you're using will have similar names.

zauberliu · 02-08-2010, 04:45 AM

Hi together, thank you

About this problem, we have tried this script:
LANG=zh_CN.GB18030
LANGUAGE=zh_CN.GB18030:zh_CN.GB2312:zh_CN
export LANG LANGUAGE
it works.