SLES 11 : Add Japanese Language

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Hi there

I have been having problems with adding japanese language support on my
SLES11 SP 1

So far I have done the following:

  1. Added Japanese as my secondary language using
    yast2–>System–>Languages—> Primary Language set as English (US) and
    Secondary language set as Japanese

  2. Changed my Keyboard laytout using
    yast2—>System—>Hardware—Keyboard Configuration—>Japanese

However, when I attempted to open files which I had scp’ed from windows
(ANSI and UTF-8 encoded files) with japanese characters in it, all I got
was garbled output:

Code:

my-mnag0:/tmp # cat jptest-utf8.txt
良い朝my-mnag0:/tmp # cat jptest.txt
ÿþo‚D0gmy-mnag0:/tmp #

I am not sure how to go on, I Googled and for most people it worked
after the keyboard layout was changed. Do I need to reboot for the
change to take affect?

So I am attempting to do these things:

  1. System to be able to read Japanese language files
  2. On the other hand, we have Nagios installed on this server and the
    system’s inability to read Japanese is causing the decade alerts emailed
    to clients come out in garbled texts

Please help, I am kind of lost here.

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On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:36:02 GMT
pritianki pritianki@no-mx.forums.novell.com wrote:
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Hi there

I have been having problems with adding japanese language support on
my SLES11 SP 1

So far I have done the following:

  1. Added Japanese as my secondary language using
    yast2–>System–>Languages—> Primary Language set as English (US)
    and Secondary language set as Japanese

  2. Changed my Keyboard laytout using
    yast2—>System—>Hardware—Keyboard Configuration—>Japanese

However, when I attempted to open files which I had scp’ed from
windows (ANSI and UTF-8 encoded files) with japanese characters in
it, all I got was garbled output:

Code:

my-mnag0:/tmp # cat jptest-utf8.txt
良い朝my-mnag0:/tmp # cat jptest.txt
ÿþo‚D0gmy-mnag0:/tmp #

I am not sure how to go on, I Googled and for most people it worked
after the keyboard layout was changed. Do I need to reboot for the
change to take affect?

So I am attempting to do these things:

  1. System to be able to read Japanese language files
  2. On the other hand, we have Nagios installed on this server and the
    system’s inability to read Japanese is causing the decade alerts
    emailed to clients come out in garbled texts

Please help, I am kind of lost here.

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Hi
What is the env output for lang?

env |grep LANG
locale

You may need to set the LANG for the nagios environment.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.9-desktop
up 23:49, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.07
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hi malcolm

this is out locale and env output:

Code:

my-mnag0:~ # env |grep LANG
LANG=POSIX
my-mnag0:~ # locale
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE=en_US
LC_NUMERIC=“POSIX”
LC_TIME=“POSIX”
LC_COLLATE=“POSIX”
LC_MONETARY=“POSIX”
LC_MESSAGES=“POSIX”
LC_PAPER=“POSIX”
LC_NAME=“POSIX”
LC_ADDRESS=“POSIX”
LC_TELEPHONE=“POSIX”
LC_MEASUREMENT=“POSIX”
LC_IDENTIFICATION=“POSIX”
LC_ALL=
my-mnag0:~ # date
Thu Dec 8 12:20:12 MYT 2011

how do i change my nagios language environment?

do i have to add it in the .fonts folder? as of now its empty

Code:

my-mnag0:/usr/local/nagios/.fonts # ll
total 0
my-mnag0:/usr/local/nagios/.fonts # date
Thu Dec 8 12:24:23 MYT 2011

and i checked nagios’ locale folder and currently the support i have is
in Deutsch and French:

Code:

my-mnag0:/usr/local/nagios/share/locale # ll
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 80 Dec 12 2009 de
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 80 Dec 12 2009 fr
my-mnag0:/usr/local/nagios/share/locale # date
Thu Dec 8 12:25:07 MYT 2011

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On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:06:02 GMT
pritianki pritianki@no-mx.forums.novell.com wrote:
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hi malcolm

this is out locale and env output:

Code:

my-mnag0:~ # env |grep LANG

LANG=POSIX
my-mnag0:~ # locale
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE=en_US
LC_NUMERIC=“POSIX”
LC_TIME=“POSIX”
LC_COLLATE=“POSIX”
LC_MONETARY=“POSIX”
LC_MESSAGES=“POSIX”
LC_PAPER=“POSIX”
LC_NAME=“POSIX”
LC_ADDRESS=“POSIX”
LC_TELEPHONE=“POSIX”
LC_MEASUREMENT=“POSIX”
LC_IDENTIFICATION=“POSIX”
LC_ALL=
my-mnag0:~ # date
Thu Dec 8 12:20:12 MYT 2011

how do i change my nagios language environment?

do i have to add it in the .fonts folder? as of now its empty

Code:

my-mnag0:/usr/local/nagios/.fonts # ll

total 0
my-mnag0:/usr/local/nagios/.fonts # date
Thu Dec 8 12:24:23 MYT 2011

and i checked nagios’ locale folder and currently the support i have
is in Deutsch and French:

Code:

my-mnag0:/usr/local/nagios/share/locale # ll
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 80 Dec 12 2009 de
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 80 Dec 12 2009 fr
my-mnag0:/usr/local/nagios/share/locale # date
Thu Dec 8 12:25:07 MYT 2011

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Hi
I would look at using nagios from the SLE SDK, it probably has better
integration as well as updates?

You can download the SLE SDK iso image and add via yaST add on products
it will add the online and update repositories as well.

You need to change from posix to utf-8 for the characters to work I
would guess.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.9-desktop
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hi malcolm, this must sound silly…how do i change the POSIX to UTF-8?

=.=

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