Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-m17n (39 mails)

[Mike Shegedin <sandynomike@xxxxxxxxx>]

Notes on getting japanese printing working and
japanese input working for kde apps, just in case
others happen to be tearing their hair out dealing
with these issues as I was for a few days.

I managed to fine tune the system a bit since my last
posting. I made good progress getting printing in
firefox to work. However a couple of small issues
arose. The main one was that I found myself unable to
get Japanese entry in any KDE apps. Well, since I had
performed an English install and had installed
Japanese stuff manually, I forgot to install
scim-qtimm and scim-tables-ja. Without these it would
seem utterly impossible to get scim to activate during
use of a kde app. After installing these packages,
Japanese input in all of the kde apps I tried worked
as well as the firefox and other gtk based apps which
I had working originally.

I also discovered that while RC_LC_ALL set to
ja_JP.UTF-8 enables ghostscript to properly render
Japanese pages, it also tends to make Japanese a
little too pervasive. For example, RC_LC_MESSAGES must
be set to ja_JP in order to convince ghostscript to
render Japanese pages properly. Setting RC_LC_ALL also
achieves the same effect even if RC_LC_MESSAGES is not
specifically set. However, RC_LC_MESSAGES also
controls the language for the GIMP's menus. So, with
RC_LC_ALL or RC_LC_MESSAGES set to a Japanese setting,
the GIMP menus are all in Japanese (in spite of the
fact that no other menus seem to be in Japanese.) Well
to make the GIMP understandable I simply edited the
start menu entry as follows:
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" gimp
which resets the variable to allow English menus in
the GIMP but doesn't affect other apps (including
ghostscript.) However a setting of RC_LC_ALL equal to
ja_JP.UTF-8 overrides the LC_MESSAGES so if RC_LC_ALL
is set, it's impossible to run the GIMP in English. So
I decided on the following:
RC_LANG gets en_US.UTF-8, and RC_LC_MESSAGES,
RC_LC_C_TYPE, RC_LC_COLLATE, AND RC_LC_MONETARY all
get ja_JP.UTF-8. I set the others besides
RC_LC_MESSAGES to Japanese settings since I reside in
Japan. 

I wish I could do it the other way around -- set the
MESSAGES variable to Japanese only when printing via
Ghostscript and leave it set to English normally, in
order to get English messages to standard out (for
example vi and bash messages etc.) So if anyone has a
suggestion... But for now, I'm pretty satisfied by
having a 95% English system that is able to input and
print Japanese.

Mike


		
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