Lowe

Well to be honest it's just a case of messing with your /home/username/i18n

FIle. mines looks like this.

LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8

GTK_IM_MODULE=uim-anthy

LC_ADDRESS=en_GB

LC_COLLATE=ja_JP.UTF-8

XIM=uim-anthy

LC_NAME=en_GB

LC_NUMERIC=en_GB

LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB

LC_TIME=ja_JP.UTF-8

LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8

LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB

LC_MESSAGES=ja_JP.UTF-8

LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8

LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB

ENC=eucj

LC_MONETARY=en_GB

XIM_PROGRAM=uim-xim

LC_PAPER=en_GB

XMODIFIERS="@im=uim-anthy"

If you have any other problems just keep messing around with it, like i did.

Gui's get things done quick, i only need a gui to configure it.

Alright it's back in japanese again, im not gonna delete the language pack, because i need it. So any idea what file i should edit to get gaim back to english.

EDIT: I figured it out. Now i have everything they way i want it, thank you everyone for your help.

try replacing the ja_JP with ja_JP.UTF-8

 

Also, instead of modifying the /etc/sysconfig/i18n, you can copy the file to ~/.i18n (hidden file). This way, you don't have to mess with system wide settings and the changes to ~/.i18n take effect once you log out and in again instead of having to reboot.

 

If this doesn't work, try modifying the /etc/fstab entry. Maybe

iocharset=iso-2022-jp instead of iocharset=utf8 will do. Or maybe it has to be

iocharset=iso2022jp (not sure).

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Alright i did that, but i didn't do it in the hidden folder i did it in system wide settings. And i still have a problem, first thing is a lot of programs are now half japanese, i only wanted to see stuff i had that was originally japanese on my windows drive. And it doesn't even show the full file name it has missing characters etc. And now my files have a lock on them and when i click it says the file doesn't exist!

EDIT: if i can't fix this i might aswell delete linux, i can't live without my music and other files.

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Wow wow forget all that i just typed, i managed to get it working woo hoo i edited the file in the home directory like you said, and i can now see my files! one problem though, gaim is completely japanese. Any ideas how to fix it?

EDIT: I figured it out. Now i have everything they way i want it, thank you everyone for your help.

I use the GUI for proftpd Gproftpd it's still not as good as BPFTP though, so im still looking for a better GUI or something else completely.

Yes i used to be able to copy text of yahoo.co.jp and make a folder and it would show up, but for some weird reason it doesn't any more.

Uhm before i do that i think it's about time i told you what fonts i have installed.

Name: fonts-ttf-japanese

Thats the only japanese fonts i have, do i need more?

Thanks for your help, im getting a bit closer now. I actually think it's a font problem now, hopefully you will be able to tell. I made those changes and i can now see the directorys that normally wouldn't show up at all, but they show up with Squares etc which you can see in the attached pic.

Here is my new /etc/sysconfig/i18n/

SYSFONTACM=iso15

LANGUAGE=en_GB:en

LC_ADDRESS=en_GB

LC_COLLATE=ja_JP

LC_NAME=en_GB

LC_NUMERIC=en_GB

LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB

LC_TIME=en_GB

LANG=ja_JP

LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB

LC_MESSAGES=ja_JP

LC_CTYPE=ja_JP

LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB

LC_MONETARY=en_GB

LC_PAPER=en_GB

SYSFONT=lat0-16

I don't think im ever going to get this right. Anyway i read somewhere i need to change my /etc/sysconfig/i18n/

Here is what it currently contains.

SYSFONTACM=iso15

LANGUAGE=en_GB:en

LC_ADDRESS=en_GB

LC_COLLATE=en_GB

LC_NAME=en_GB

LC_NUMERIC=en_GB

LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB

LC_TIME=en_GB

LANG=en_GB

LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB

LC_MESSAGES=en_GB

LC_CTYPE=en_GB

LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB

LC_MONETARY=en_GB

LC_PAPER=en_GB

SYSFONT=lat0-16

Any idea what to change? if im supposed to change it that is.

Yes it's a windows partiton i copied your fstab bit noauto,iocharset=utf8,ro,umask=0 0 0.

But i still don't see my files that are in kanji (filenames ,they just don't show the files at all not even with squilly squares) i don't even know if i have those fonts.

EDIT: could you post a link to those fonts ^_~

Well ogg is not a video format, it's an audio format, although there is a video format called ogm which uses ogg for the music in the video. That format can be played with Mplayer.

That did it, thanks. One problem though, it seems to go back to the old settings every now and then.

No i just want to add a partiton to /home/lowe/stored/ so i did that but when i go to create a folder i get permission denied.

Hey i formatted one of my partitons and mounted it, now when i try to create a folder (where it was mounted) i get access denied? anyone know how to allow me to create folders etc

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No not yet. I will try it in a minute.

Forget aim, download gaim it's a lot better. http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

If you have urpmi set up correctly Just urpmi -a gaim

I don't think i will pay for mandrake quite yet, maybe when a newer version comes out. So i will probally wait for 11.0 >_>

I managed to fix it, well not really fix it. I have a lot of Jpop music on my system and it doesn't show up because it's tagged in japanese so i thought if i installed the japanese language pack it would show my files, but it never did. So i just uninstalled the japanese language pack and gaim went back to english.

I just deleted that and it's still in japanese.

I just tried that,and it was still in japanese.

uhm well for some reason when i rebooted and started up gaim, it was in japanese and i don't know how to turn it back, any ideas guys?

I reset my modem and it somehow works.

Nope. I didn't even know that one was in there. ;)

I'm connecting via the online setup for my D-link 300T. That file doesn't say much .

nameserver 195.93.34.134

No. It just keeps trying to load, but it never does. :(