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windrider

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Registered: 2005-05-07

Posts: 27

getting japanese characters to display correctly in fmanager

trying to get japanese chars to show up correctly in konqueror/krusader/nautilus/etc for half a day and still cant get it working right...

to start off, before any of the stuff i did below, japanese chars are already displayed perfectly for firefox,gaim,and sylpheed, just that they showed up as gibberish in all my file managers.

i downloaded tars from http://downloads.sourceforge.jp/efont/5411 and kochi-mincho and kochi-gothic from http://ftp.hr.debian.org/debian/pool/ma … hi-gothic/ and http://ftp.hr.debian.org/debian/pool/ma … hi-mincho/.

- copied both the kochi substitute fonts and fonts from debian.org to my /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF dir
- chmodded the fonts dir to make sure that they can be read by my non root user
- ran fc-cache on fonts dir
- restarted X
- still didnt work

- did a mkfontscale on my TTF font dir
- reran fc-cache
- restarted X

and it still shows up as gibberish.

what else do i need to do?

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: getting japanese characters to display correctly in fmanager

You can try  scim-anthy (pacman -S scim-anthy).  It's for Japanese support but I don't know if it can solve your problem.  It's been recently added to the official repo: http://www.archlinux.org/news.php#166
Sorry, I can't give you more info.

windrider

Member

Registered: 2005-05-07

Posts: 27

Re: getting japanese characters to display correctly in fmanager

I already have scim, anthy and stuff installed. I have no problems inputting japanese and getting them to work in firefox/gaim etc, only having problems displaying japanese characters/filenames in filemanagers like konqueror/nautilus and stuff.

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: getting japanese characters to display correctly in fmanager

Sorry if I misunderstood your question.
Try posting on the arch mailing list:
http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch/
There is currently a discussion going on about these packages.  Maybe someone there will be able to help you better than myself.

whisky

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From: Paris, France

Registered: 2005-05-06

Posts: 22

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Re: getting japanese characters to display correctly in fmanager

It might be a problem with your locale setting, are you using UTF-8? and are those files and folders names in UTF-8? or any other locale?

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windrider

Member

Registered: 2005-05-07

Posts: 27

Re: getting japanese characters to display correctly in fmanager

using konqueror i tried utf8/use lang variable/eucjp but all didnt work

hmm... if i enter new filenames using scim, characters are displayed properly...

the files are stuff i copied over from windows, they originally came from winmx... i have no idea what locale they are in.