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Japanese menus in netscape-ja-resource-476 won't display correctly



Hello there,

I recently upgraded to the latest navigator in Woody and tried
installing netscape-ja-resource-476 to get input Japanese form buttons
to display properly and to enable Japanese input.  This works fine,
but no matter what I try, the menu options are all gibberish.  Mozilla
displays Japanese fine in menus and bookmarks, so I wonder if it's a
Motif problem I'm having?  Anyway, I've tried variations of the
following environment variable settings and Xresources:

(from my .xsession:)

# Set the interface language to english, allow Japanese input
export LANGUAGE=en
export LINGUAS=en
# Handle Characters as Japanese
# May break certain things like window maker.
#export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP
# Format time as English
export LC_TIME=C
# Format numbers as English
export LC_NUMERIC=C
# Output messages in English
export LC_MESSAGES=C
# Do sorting and collating of characters as Japanese
export LC_COLLATE=ja_JP
# Use Japanese for all others
export LANG=ja_JP
# Setting the following overrides LANG and all LC_ variables
# export LC_ALL=ja_JP
export XMODIFIERS="@im=kinput2"

(from my .Xresources:)
*.inputMethod: kinput2
*.preeditType: OverTheSpot
*.fontSet: -ricoh-ms\ mincho-medium-r-normal---140-*-*-*-*-*-*
*.fontList: -ricoh-ms\ mincho-medium-r-normal---140-*-*-*-*-*-*
Netscape.geometry: 920x680
Netscape*international: True
!Netscape*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*
!Netscape*fontSet: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*
!Netscape*fontList: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*
Netscape*font: -ricoh-ms\ mincho-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Netscape*fontSet: -ricoh-ms\ mincho-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Netscape*fontList: -ricoh-ms\ mincho-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Setting the fontList resource does indeed change the appearance of the
Motif menu options as promised, but still no Japanese is rendered.
Instead I get a bunch of Yen symbols.

Any ideas on what I could do to fix this up properly?  Do you suppose
this is a bug in the netscape-ja-resource-476 package?  I never did
try the preceeding netscape-ja-resource-475 package since it had that
dependancy issue with locale-ja or whatever, so I don't know if that
would have worked with my setup or not.

Thanks for your time and any input!  My head is beginning to spin from
sifting through all those Japanese help sites on older and possibly
not quite relevant issues with communicator 4.04 and Japanization...
:)

Steve

-- 
Steven Mueller
diffusor@ugcs.caltech.edu



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