[Fedora-i18n-list] keyboard difficulties

[Akira TAGOH]

>>>>> On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 23:57:56 -0700 (PDT),
>>>>> "JFL" == John Francis Lee <jfmxl at yahoo.com> wrote:

JFL> Hello,
JFL> I am following along with the FAQ :

[snip]

JFL> I am confused... I chose Japanes when I logged into to gnome, yet 

You mean you choose Japanese on gdm, you got the following
result then?

JFL> [ws4 at ws4 ~]$ locale
JFL> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
JFL> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
JFL> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
JFL> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
JFL> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
JFL> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
JFL> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
JFL> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
JFL> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
JFL> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
JFL> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
JFL> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
JFL> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
JFL> LC_ALL=

possible thing about this problem is

1) If you can see Japanese translation at the desktop, you
may have LANG=en_US.UTF-8 stuff somewhere like in .bashrc.

2) If you can't even see Japanese translation at the
desktop, you may have LANG=en_US.UTF-8 somewhere in the
system-wide configuration. what about the result of
$GDM_LANG? if you choose Japanese from gdm, you should have
GDM_LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8.

JFL> And do I have to change my locale just to enter Japanese?

JFL> When I use the default hotkey <ctrl-space> nothing is entered when I
JFL> use the keyboard. As well I now have a keyboard selector which
JFL> alternates between <USA, Tha> and the gimlet app which alternates
JFL> between <en,jp> on my icon line. Thai and English still seem to work
JFL> ok. And Japanese does when I include the locale on the gedit command
JFL> line (at least I think it does, the romanji box appears. I don't know
JFL> Japanese).

Assuming that your requrement are to input Japanese at the
English desktop, right? then you can add Japanese at
gimlet's Add or Remove Language dialog - try to press the
left button at gimlet icon and choose Add or Remove item -
and choose Japanese from language menu on gimlet. icon
should be changed to Ja.  If you think that changing it from
gimlet is annoying, you can put LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 into
$HOME/.i18n instead.

Regards,
--
Akira TAGOH