HOWTO: Japanese Input and Fonts in Ubuntu 7.10

[kung fu buntu]

The 2nd problem you are having might be to do with fonts. Try to set a Japanese capable font for document and/or application in your font settings (in admin>prefs>appearance)

I'm using Debian with KDE, so for me it's in Kcontrol / Appearance & Themes / Fonts.
I don't know if it gives the same control or not, but this is what I get:


Note that this isn't my screenshot. All my fonts are set to Sans Serif and Monospace.
What should I use instead?

Thank you.

[Kiri]

Actually I just tried making a file with a Japanese name and scim changed the font for it automatically, so maybe that is not the problem.
Are you able to actually make a new file and give it a Japanese name?
And is it only those particular files that are giving you a problem or others too?
I wonder if it might be an encoding problem..
Different programs seem to use different encodings, so sometimes those special characters get messed up depending on what prog they are in... And it may also be possible that the program you downloaded them with didnt support those characters and so saved them with incorrect names.

I'm attaching a text file with Japanese file name. See if it displays correctly for you after you dl it

[kung fu buntu]

mmmh... guess I forgot to say an important thing.
I downloaded the file before I had IUM and japanese fonts in my system -_-'

But even though at that time, when using unrar (non free version) I was able to see and extract the files correctly from the .rar file.

And now that I have UIM installed and running, still none of the archive programs (xarchive, xarchiver, ark, karchive) is able to list or extract the files correctly. Only unrar non-FOSS is able to do that!

Yes I can create files with japanese filenames.
I was also able to download and open your file.
"This is japanese!
読めるかい?" What does the 2nd sentence mean? :-p

[2benglish]

Thanks very much for this guide.
I used it before and it worked flawlessly. However, I have since had to reinstall 7.10 and now I get stopped at the pasting of the ttf files.

I am getting the message that I don't have permission to do so. Any ideas why, or another way to get access other than the line:

gksudo nautilus --browser

Thanks.

[kung fu buntu]

I'm having one problem with UIM.

How do you write word like ちよつと? IIRC the つ should be a little one.

[johnraff]

I'm having one problem with UIM.

How do you write word like ちよつと? IIRC the つ should be a little one.

How did you input it?
c h o t t o ought to work...

[Kiri]

I'm having one problem with UIM.

How do you write word like ちよつと? IIRC the つ should be a little one.

When you press T twice it should make it a small　っ
(ie with japanese input type the following key combo:
chotto, and it should come out ちょっと)

[kung fu buntu]

I also wasn't aware that if you type *cho* it becomes ちょ.

どうも　ありがと　みなーさん。

ちょっと。。。

[Tanizaki]

I'm having one problem with UIM.

How do you write word like ちよつと? IIRC the つ should be a little one.

You can also make it and some other kana small by typing an x before it. For example, "xya" is ゃ (compare with や) or "xtsu" is っ (compare with つ). This will only work for kana that have a small version in Japanese for use as a yōon or sokuon.

[ryukent]

To answer some point above:

If you can type in Japanese in gnome, but some programs don't allow you to view Japanese text, it is usually because they were written without correct support for unicode. I think this especially affects stuff written in C. Sadly there's not much you can do about it other than write to the coders and ask them to add support for extended character sets.

"sudo nautilus --browser" should give you a root browser is gksudo doesn't work... are you using KDE? gksudo is for gnome.

You can also get the small characters using the "L" button before you type. So "ltu" gives っ but "tu" gives つ. I just remember it as "little ~" hence the "L". This is the same for 電子辞書's too so I guess it's standard.