Re: [tlug] Re: Japanese under Linux

[Botond Botyanszki <tlug@example.com>]

On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 19:49:56 -0800
dstibbe <dstibbe@example.com> wrote:

> Tried it . Output of locale :
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="ja_JP.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="ja_JP.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="ja_JP.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="ja_JP.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="ja_JP.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="ja_JP.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="ja_JP.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="ja_JP.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="ja_JP.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="ja_JP.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="ja_JP.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="ja_JP.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8
> 
> Output of my 'date' command :
> 2004綛  7  2 9:46:12 AKDT
> 
> Doesn't seem like mojibake to me.

It is mojibake. If you use unicode, then take a look at mlterm or
gnome-terminal. Otherwise set LC_TIME=ja_JP, and date will show properly
in kterm because it will output euc-jp that kterm can display.