Re: Problem with dislaying Japanese in X

[Dibben <dibben@example.com>]

On Tue, 01 May 2001 06:16:35 -0400 (EDT)
Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:

> I grabbed the gjiten 0.8 RPM and installed it. When I ran
> it, I noticed that X was not displaying Japanese properly.
> Mozilla is still handling things fine, but it has its own
> rendering engine for Japanese, I think, so that would not
> matter...
> 
> After doing an:
> 
> export LANG="ja_JP"
> 
> and running gedit to see if anything was displaying
> properly, the menus and stuff, which should be in Japanese,
> were unreadable garbage. Can anyone tell me what is up?
> Japanese was working fine... it still works in emacs,
> though, again, that may be unrelated.
> 
> It looks like this is a GTK+ problem to me...


On my system if I _just_ set LANG="ja_JP" then gedit also displays garbage
for menus. To get it to display in Japanese it is also necessary to set
LC_ALL="ja_JP.eucJP"



Regards

David