Re: Japanese fonts in gnome-terminal

[Daniel Palmer <daniel@cardboardbox.org.uk>]

Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 09:38 -0400, Victor Munoz wrote:
>   
> > Hello. I had this working in sarge, but somehow things have changed in
> > etch, and I can't see Japanese fonts in gnome-terminal. Currently I
> > have installed packages like cjk-latex, hbf-kanji48, ttf-kochi-mincho,
> > among the japanese-related packages I can remember. In gnome-terminal,
> > going to Terminal->Set Character Encoding->Japanese (EUC-JP) does not
> > work. I have also tried with the current locale (ISO-8859-1), Unicode
> > (UTF-8) and Japanese (SHIFT-JIS). I have generated the locale
> > ja_JP.EUC-JP.  I also tried adding xfonts-intl-japanese, but it didn't
> > work. 
> >
> > Sure I'm missing something, but I don't know. Any ideas?
> >     

What LANG or LC_CTYPE are you running it with? You generally need to 
start applications with either EUC-JP or UTF (The variant of UTF 
shouldn't matter, I have Japanese input/display with a British UTF8 
locale). Run locale in a terminal and see what happens.

btw; There are some decent Japanese fonts in Debian now too.. ones that 
don't make your eyes bleed. I forget the name of them but you should be 
able to find them with apt-cache. ^^