Japanese Support Under Gentoo?

GenTimJS · Guru Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 406 Location: NH, USA

Hi,

I have just installed Gentoo and am trying to get it to accept japanese input properly, and support the appropriate screen fonts, etc.

I am using a Japanese AOI-106 keyboard, and am using the appropriate keymap however I'm unsure of what to do to get Gentoo to take Hiragana and Kana input (or even how to get the correct console font installed)

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated! :-)

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slartibartfasz · Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 11:37 pm Post subject:

look into your use flags (best done with command: ufed) and make sure that u compile everything with all the japanes font flags enabled... i think there are two or three...
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iamlarryboy · Posted: Sun May 04, 2003 1:20 am Post subject: k

I went through this awhile ago and it actually isn't that hard. This process worked for me.

1) emerge kinput2 and canna

2)

GenTimJS · Guru Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 406 Location: NH, USA

Geting it to work under X is important, however Im primarilly looking at geting it working on the console.

Any thoughts with that?
Something a special shell may help?

Also, on a semirelated note, do gentoo's default crypto libraries support extended char sets? Id -LOVE- to use mixed roman/japanese passwords.....
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