Japanese on Non-X Server for SSH and mail

[noathustra]

I have built a gentoo server to serve files and offer mail. The system cannot display Japanese fonts. I cannot enter Japanese fonts. E-mails sent in Japanese are garbled by Mutt. E-mails composed by Squirrelmail are also garbled.

I have, inter alia, CJK and NLS in my USE flags.

I use ssmtp to send rely mail to my ISP's smtp server. I collect mail using fetchmail and gotmail. I use procmail to deliver mail to my maildirs. I filter SPAM with bogofilter and spam assassin. Ise squirrelmail and Courier-IMAP for webmail. I use the SSL component.

I cannot use nbsmtp because it intermittently silently fails to send mail. I cannot use hotwayd because it intermittently gets stuck on a message and continuously collects that same message.

I use puTTY as an ssh terminal.

I will consider any solution to my problem. I will make any necessary changes. I know that this can work because I have seen screenshots with puTTY displaying Japanese and I have read howtos for Debian. I don't want to switch to Debian, because overall I really like Gentoo.

Please help. Any advice or suggestions greatly appreciated.

What should I do?[/i]

[gebner]

1) Do you have japanese locales activated (/etc/env.d/02locale)?

2) Have you re-emerged your glibc to support locales?

3) As for Putty (*opening putty with wine*), you can set the encoding in Window/Translation to whatever you are using.
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[noathustra]

Thank you for your response. I do not have the Japanese locale activated. I couldn't find documentation on how to do so. Can you please direct me in the right direction.
Cheers,
N