Re: Japanese Input/Content + English Interface

[Ryan Shaw <ryan silveregg co jp>]

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>>This is an issue because I would like to switch to Sylpheed
>>or Evolution for my mail client but I can't until they can do
>>what Mozilla mail does: allow me to read and write Japanese
>>email while using an English user interface.
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>You can type japanese in evolution? i ave not been able too, if you could, tell me how you did it.
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Actually, not evolution. Any other GTK/Gnome app seems to work fine,
so I assumed evolution would too. But I tried it just now and it
didn't work.

>anyway, change the LC_CTYPE shell variable to ja_JP or something (NOT LC_ALL)
>i.e.   env LC_CTYPE=ja_JP sylpheed
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>or add this line to your .$SHELLrc (.bashrc)  
>export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP
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Thanks, I'll try this out.

Ryan