Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-m17n (48 mails)

[Paul Davidson <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I apologize for joining this list just to get help, but the Suse support
database seems pretty worthless and my searches haven't turned up
anything.

I am a new Linux user, just having installed Suse 9.0 (I bought the
personal edition). Today, I decided to figure out how to input Japanese
(I have studied Japanese for several years and plan to move to Japan).
To my chagrin, I discovered that I cannot even view Japanese text (e.g.
websites) in Suse, let alone input it. All I see are little boxes in
place of Japanese characters.

I presume that the built-in Sans and Serif fonts are supposed to be full
or nearly-full unicode fonts, but I can't see any CJK characters in the
Unicode font utility. All I see are little boxes.

The Yast language setup tool does not display the Asian language names
correctly. I just see little boxes. I tried switching to Japanese, but
it didn't seem to make any difference - except in my Ximian Evolution
menues, which now consist of (you guessed it) little boxes instead of
English or Japanese text.

Any help is appreciated. I'm a little weary of Suse's support, which I
paid for but has been non-existent so far. I'd just chuck the whole
thing, if I hadn't already spent two weeks (and $80) configuring
everything else the way I need it.

Paul Davidson