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Schod

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Registered: 2009-01-02

Posts: 2

Enabling support for Japanese characters

Japanese characters show up as "?" in bash and Thunar. This also renders bash and Thunar unable to copy or move directories and files with Japanese characters.

How do I fix this?

Thanks in advance.

imagelife

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From: China

Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 49

Re: Enabling support for Japanese characters

Japanese characters show up as "?" in bash and Thunar. This also renders bash and Thunar unable to copy or move directories and files with Japanese characters.

How do I fix this?

Thanks in advance.

first, you should install japanese fonts. then you will solve this problem.
maybe you should look some things from arch wiki .

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Procyon

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 1,819

Re: Enabling support for Japanese characters

Also use a unicode locale, and a utf terminal like urxvt. Shift_JIS and EUC_JP will still give problems though. (you can get filenames encoded in that by extracting a .zip)

Schod

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Registered: 2009-01-02

Posts: 2

Re: Enabling support for Japanese characters

Japanese characters show up as "?" in bash and Thunar. This also renders bash and Thunar unable to copy or move directories and files with Japanese characters.

How do I fix this?

Thanks in advance.

first, you should install japanese fonts. then you will solve this problem.
maybe you should look some things from arch wiki .

How do I do this?

And I am using a unicode locale and utf terminal.

Akaraxle

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Registered: 2008-12-20

Posts: 5

Re: Enabling support for Japanese characters

Hmm... are those files you see as "?" in mounted partitions, perhaps NTFS? If that is the case, I believe you need to specify "nls=utf8" among the mount options (in /etc/fstab or wherever you're mounting them).

Concerning fonts, I believe they are referring to this wiki page, but I can see Japanese characters just fine without the need to install any of the CJK ttf packages suggested in that paragraph.

Last edited by Akaraxle (2009-01-04 12:25:15)

sokuban

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Registered: 2006-11-11

Posts: 412

Re: Enabling support for Japanese characters

You generated locales right?

Because even if you don't have the fonts for something, you should still be able to move the ???????? files. I can only guess that you either don't have a utf8 locale, or your program doesn't support utf8. Since I haven't seen many programs that don't support utf8 these days, I think you don't have a utf8 locale.

As for fonts I'd reccomend trying out the Sazanami font.

Last edited by sokuban (2009-01-04 15:52:48)