Japanese font's in thunderbird not working after pacman -Syu

vladuz976 · 2006-02-28 08:03:44

Hi i updated with -Syu today. pacman pulled new versions of the ttf japanese fonts in. after the upgrade I can't read my japanese contacts in thunderbird anymore. Everything else works. i can type in japanese read japanese font everywhere except in thunderbird.

scottro · 2006-02-28 18:31:25

Sometimes, playing with LC_CTYPE or LANG will help.

That is, I have most things with an LC_CTYPE en_US.utf8.

However, in some apps, it won't work unless I change it to
LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.utf8. Sometimes, changing the LANG variable to ja_JP.utf8 might help. (You can also play around with euc and see if that helps).

vladuz976 · 2006-03-01 04:51:17

scottro wrote:

Sometimes, playing with LC_CTYPE or LANG will help.
That is, I have most things with an LC_CTYPE en_US.utf8.
However, in some apps, it won't work unless I change it to
LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.utf8. Sometimes, changing the LANG variable to ja_JP.utf8 might help. (You can also play around with euc and see if that helps).

hey scottro, thanks for you help, you are the one who set up the guide on how to install scim and japanese fonts under Arch.

scottro · 2006-03-01 14:06:14

Err yes, that's me.

Note that the new glibc from testing is causing problems with Japanese. If you try it, be sure to back up your old glibc package.

The developers are working out the bugs.

Anyway let me know if either of the suggestions helped.

vladuz976 · 2006-03-01 22:17:26

scottro wrote:

Err yes, that's me.
Note that the new glibc from testing is causing problems with Japanese. If you try it, be sure to back up your old glibc package.
The developers are working out the bugs.
Anyway let me know if either of the suggestions helped.

hi,

i my LC_TYPE was set to japanese already
i changed LANG in /etc/profile to

export LANG="ja_JP.utf8"

now it's working with japanese fonts thunderbird

vladuz976 · 2006-03-04 21:11:34

vladuz976 wrote:

scottro wrote:
Err yes, that's me.
Note that the new glibc from testing is causing problems with Japanese. If you try it, be sure to back up your old glibc package.
The developers are working out the bugs.
Anyway let me know if either of the suggestions helped.
hi,
i my LC_TYPE was set to japanese already
i changed LANG in /etc/profile to
export LANG="ja_JP.utf8"
now it's working with japanese fonts thunderbird

actually chaning the LANG in /etc/profile seems to be the only way to display stufff correctly. only problem is that then everything is in japanese, which is not what i want.
what else could be done to fix that?

scottro · 2006-03-04 23:03:06

I don't have Thunderbird, and haven't run into the problem, so I'm not sure. (I know there are problems with some qt apps, but Thunderbird is gtk I would think.)

What about GTK_IM_MODULE. Does setting that help?

In other words
LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.utf8
GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"

(And leave lang alone)

BTW, if you do upgrade glibc, it's now working, but a few things have to be done, check archlinux.org's frontpage for info.

scottro · 2006-03-05 00:42:31

I just realized that since your problem is reading, not input, the chances are that GTK_IM_MODULE won't help at all.

What about calling thunderbird with a script that sets your LANG to ja_JP and otherwise, leaving LANG alone? Something
like LANG=ja_JP.utf8 thunderbird. (I'm not sure the utf8 part is necessary, just doing ja_JP might work.)

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#1 2006-02-28 08:03:44

Japanese font's in thunderbird not working after pacman -Syu

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Re: Japanese font's in thunderbird not working after pacman -Syu

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