Re: displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-26 Thread Joel Rees
Ouch. [...] For example, Debian console installer runs on virtual console with japanese display or any fancy characters. This is because they run special terminal program. Should be the same set of issues, except for the specific parameters, for any large-character-set language.

displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-25 Thread Joel Rees
For reasons I don't care to debate, I have set my system's default language to Japanese. When I go to work in the virtual console windows (for instance, apt-get), I tend to get messages that should be in Japanese, but the Japanese is replaced by the Unicode replacement characters (?), which is no

Re: displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-25 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 09:10:48PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: For reasons I don't care to debate, I have set my system's default language to Japanese. When I go to work in the virtual console windows (for instance, apt-get), I tend to get messages that should be in Japanese, but the Japanese is

Re: displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-25 Thread hvw59601
Joel Rees wrote: For reasons I don't care to debate, I have set my system's default language to Japanese. snip Did you install with Japanese as the default language, or did you install as some other language and change the default? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 09:10:48PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: For reasons I don't care to debate, I have set my system's default language to Japanese. When I go to work in the virtual console windows (for instance, apt-get), I tend to get messages that should be in Japanese, but the Japanese

Fwd: displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-25 Thread Joel Rees
(Forgot to reply to list.) On 12/25/11, hvw59601 hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Joel Rees wrote: For reasons I don't care to debate, I have set my system's default language to Japanese. snip Did you install with Japanese as the default language, or did you install as some other language and

Re: displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-25 Thread Joel Rees
(Forgot to reply to list.) On 12/26/11, Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org wrote: Hi, On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 09:10:48PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: For reasons I don't care to debate, I have set my system's default language to Japanese. When I go to work in the virtual console windows (for instance,