Japanese Language Fedora 9

Can any one help with installing and using Japanese language to type as well as read.
Thanks

Originally Posted by kujirasan

Can any one help with installing and using Japanese language to type as well as read.
Thanks

Very easy, just search the forum for Japanese or Chinese and my name (or scottro)

Wayne

[scottro]

Or, what was once THE page on it (my own).
http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/jpninpt.html

Actually, it's become very easy now. The original page (at that URL) was far longer and more complex, though still simple when compared to Craig Oda's 1997 Japanese how to.

Aside from OpenBSD, where the README in the Japanese section says (or said when I last looked) that this might not work, Japanese in Linux and the BSDs has become almost trivial. (Actually, from what I understand, Xandros is still very difficult to get working with Japanese, which annoys those who buy the Asus EEE PC--but most people seem to buy it, take off Xandros and put something else on instead.)

Fedora (and CentOS) take it one step further. You can, in either one, just print a Japanese text file and have it come out properly. With other distros, and FreeBSD, one has to run it through paps, openffice or firefox first.

So, long winded answer as I feel philosophical, but the short answer was in the first line or so. Check out that page and it should work.

The one caveat that I've found in recent Fedora installs is mentioned on that page--the fact that sometimes, you have to manually add the hotkey for shift+space to get scim-anthy working properly. (It's explained in detail on the page.)

Wayne and I expect to see your answer in Japanese.

Hi Scott,

One day I'll remember to bookmark your page... One day

As you say, it's always been easy to install Japanese support in Fedora, except I had a small problem in F8 but it was easy to fix, just needed to manually set something in SCIM set-up and things were back to normal...

No Japanese today

Wayne

[oblufire]

Ok i installed and my japanese input and japanese menu bar everything is japanese. great. i want to ask. is there anything that would cause my system not to be able to change back to english. In other words I want to make the system menus back to english.

i go system settings language
i choose english USA
but when i log out and even when i restart the system menus are still in Japanese.

When you log-in select English from the log-in screen.

Wayne

[oblufire]

i do not get the option to choose a language at login. how do i set that up?

[scottro]

I don't use a graphic login, so I'm not sure, though I believe there is an option there somewhere. When asking such a question, by the way, try to let us know how you're logging in, that is, are you using GDM, the default, or some other method.

At any rate, you should be able to set this in your .bash_profile. That's a file in your $HOME directory.
With your favorite text editor, while in your $HOME directory (the directory that you're put into when you log in) open a file called .bash_profile. (Note the period in front of the name, it's a hidden file.)

Add this line
LANG=en_US-UTF-8

Log out and log back in and you should have English as your default, but still be able to type Japanese. (Unless Fedora and Gnome, working together to make MS the better choice, have made it so that some Gnome setting or another overrides that.)
Anyway, try that and see if it works.

[oblufire]

ok i am logging in using the graphic default login it gives me the fedora window with disabled settings button on the bottom left. i get a window in the middle with my user name and the options login restart shutdown. i click on my user name and then type in my password. i get nothing else.

I am looking for bash_profile in my home folder but i do not see it. is it hidden?

Is there nothing on the bar at the bottom? I have the language chooser right in the middle!

Wayne

[oblufire]

duh i am dumb I just noticed the period thing. thanks

[oblufire]

no there is nothing on the botttom bar for languages. can i manually install that option?

[oblufire]

interesting note.

My problem is fixed.

thankyou both.

I added the line like scot said and then restarted. when i got back to the log in screen i had the language choice on the bottom bar.

Thankyou both so much. also if you know any repositories that are good to add to my yum repo please message me. I have not found any in my online searches that are active anymore.

All the info you need is in the links in my sig... Glad you got it fixed at last

Wayne