Do you have japanese language support configured? I've set this up
in Redhat many a time but I haven't tried it in gentoo yet. You'll need
to "emerge canna" to get the cannaserver (A japanese font server if I
remember correctly). It's a service, so you'll need to start it from
/etc/init.d and maybe do "rc-update add canna default" so it's started
each time. Then you'll need to set some environment variables and setup
an X input method (i.e a program that runs in the back ground to let you
enter japanese). I use kinput2, I think there are others. Generally I
run my system in english, and since setting the environment variables
will cause your whole system to behave like a japanese system (i.e. your
menus and help files and such will be in japanese) I use a script to run
whatever program I want with the japanese settings. Like so:
#!/bin/bash
LC_ALL=ja_JP
LANG=ja_JP.eucJP
XMODIFIERS='@im=kinput2'
$1 &
As long as the canna server's running this should work. Save it as
something like jp_on and do "sh jp_on gimp" and away you go.
Also, check this site. It seems to do a better job of explaining what
I'm trying to:
http://joppegaard.com/jpn_linux.html
Hope that helps.
Jeremy
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