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Originally Posted by slackist
I can't get Dolphin, Slackware 13, KDE and OOo to show Thai fonts for file names saved anywhere in the system.
After a full install including all the stuff in kdei plus installing ~285 fonts and updating all the necessary font stuff a file saved into a user's Home (or even Root, when running as root) will still show up in Dolphin as ??????????.doc or ???????????.odt etc and the title bar of a Thai document opened in OOo will show garbage even though the file itself is handled pretty well by OOo for Thai input and formatting. Language switching, keyboard layouts etc work fine in the KDE control panel.
On an install of Kubuntu the Thai language file names show up fine in Dolphin and OOo title bars, even without extra fonts being installed manually. Am I looking at a need to recompile Dolphin to get the Thai language support on Slackware or have I just missed something?
Thanks very much in advance as always for any suggestions.
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did you configured locale in /etc/profile.d/lang.sh. probabity is that system uses en_US while you need unicode based one (mine is tr_TR.UTF-8)
fonts does not make a difference if you don7t use the correct encoding.
alsa check
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Input methods for complex characters (CJK, which is shorthand for Chinese,
Japanese, Korean) and other non-latin character sets have been added. These
input methods use the SCIM (Smart Common Input Method) platform.
The environment variables for SCIM support are set in /etc/profile.d/scim.sh
The requirements for getting SCIM input methods to work in your X session
are as follows:
(1) Use a UTF-8 locale. Look in /etc/profile.d/lang.sh for setting your
language to (for instance) en_US.UTF-8. As a word of warning: maybe you
should leave root with a non-UTF-8 locale because you don't want root's
commands to be misinterpreted. You can add the following line to your
~/.profile file to enable UTF-8 just for yourself:
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
(2) Make the scim profile scripts executable. These will setup your
environment correctly for the use of scim with X applications. Run:
chmod +x /etc/profile.d/scim.*
(3) Start the scim daemon as soon as your X session starts. The scim daemon
must be active before any of your X applications. In KDE, you can add a
shell script to the ~/.kde/Autostart folder that runs the command
"scim -d". In XFCE you can add "scim -d" to the Autostarted Applications.
If you boot your computer in runlevel 4 (the graphical XDM/KDM login)
you can simply add the line "scim -d" to your ~/.xprofile file.
This gives you a Desktop Environment independent way of starting scim.
When scim is running, you will see a small keyboard icon in your system tray.
Right-click it to enter SCIM Setup. In 'Global Setup' select your keyboard
layout, and you are ready to start entering just about any language
characters you wish! Press the magical key combo <Control><Space>
in order to activate or deactivate SCIM input. The SCIM taskbar in the
desktop's corner allows you to select a language. As you type, SCIM will show
an overview of applicable character glyphs (if you are inputting complex
characters like Japanese).
from CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT.
basicly for non-latin characters, you need Unicode locale.
