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Debian etch, Japanese, and gdm
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| Captain Dondo 2006-04-11, 8:06 am |
| I dumped Fedora Core 3 on my wife's laptop because it was hosed... I put
etch on there since I like debian's package management better than FC...
But, I can't get Japanese support to work.
I've installed the fonts, wnn, canna, etc. But emails in UTF-8 or EUC-JA
still show up as garbage, and gdm won't show Japanese as one of the
options....
I've read various howtos and googled and followed assorted directions, but
still no Japanese selection....
I don't want to have to hard code a language into .xsession; I want to be
able to select via gdm/xdm/whatever just like FC3....
What am I doing wrong? How do I tell gdm to show Japanese as a language
in the login?
/usr/share/locale/ja is populated, I have canna freewnn-common freewnn-jserver
im-switch kinput2-canna kinput2-canna-wnn kinput2-common libcanna1g libwnn0
libwnn6-1 xfonts-intl-japanese
installed, but no joy....
HELP!
--Yan
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| Geico Caveman 2006-04-11, 8:06 am |
| Captain Dondo wrote:
> I dumped Fedora Core 3 on my wife's laptop because it was hosed... I put
> etch on there since I like debian's package management better than FC...
>
> But, I can't get Japanese support to work.
>
> I've installed the fonts, wnn, canna, etc. But emails in UTF-8 or EUC-JA
> still show up as garbage, and gdm won't show Japanese as one of the
> options....
>
> I've read various howtos and googled and followed assorted directions, but
> still no Japanese selection....
>
> I don't want to have to hard code a language into .xsession; I want to be
> able to select via gdm/xdm/whatever just like FC3....
>
> What am I doing wrong? How do I tell gdm to show Japanese as a language
> in the login?
>
> /usr/share/locale/ja is populated, I have canna freewnn-common
> freewnn-jserver im-switch kinput2-canna kinput2-canna-wnn kinput2-common
> libcanna1g libwnn0 libwnn6-1 xfonts-intl-japanese
>
> installed, but no joy....
>
> HELP!
>
> --Yan
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>
Use KDE.
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| Captain Dondo 2006-04-11, 8:06 am |
| On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:12:04 -0400, Geico Caveman wrote:
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> Use KDE.
Are you saying to use kdm????
Anyway, kdm doesn't even see the fonts correctly. It displays Japanese as
one of the languages, but instead of kanji I get those hex blocks....
The desktop she uses is xfce... It should make absolutely no difference
what desktop she uses; X doesn't see the fonts that are installed.
She uses firefox and thunderbird for email and web.
--Yan
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,>/'_ o__
(_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__
Yan Seiner, PE (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__
Certified Personal Trainer (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__
Licensed Professional Engineer (_)\(_) ,>/'_
Who says engineers have to be pencil necked geeks? (_)\(_)
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| Captain Dondo 2006-04-11, 8:06 am |
| OK, resolved....
Only by looking at Knopp-Myth installed debs....
Turns out that installing xfonts-intl-japanese is pointless. What X
really needs is the two following fonts:
ttf-kochi-gothic
ttf-kochi-mincho
ARGHH!
Could perhaps the package maintainers fix that? Tie the two kochi fonts
into the xfonts-intl-japanese as deps?
Thanks.
--Yan
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o__
,>/'_ o__
(_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__
Yan Seiner, PE (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__
Certified Personal Trainer (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__
Licensed Professional Engineer (_)\(_) ,>/'_
Who says engineers have to be pencil necked geeks? (_)\(_)
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