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Hello everybody

I am working with Centos 4.2 server and I want it to make it display european languages (french, swedish,german) and east asian language (chinese,korean,japanese) through the console.

I have actually installed all necessary fonts and files written in those languages can be displayed correctly in X Window. Now the problem is that when I access the server remotely ,using SSH Secure Shell, those languages files become a messy. Anybody has got any answer about that?


Thank u for ur time

Nikale

Welcome to nixCraft forum.

Few days back I had dome something as follows to add Japanese local support for remote server system. Here is what I did:
The localedef program reads the indicated charmap and input files, compiles them to a binary form quickly usable
by the locale functions in the C library, and places the output in outputpath.

Here is how my /etc/sysconfig/i18n looks:
Look for SUPPORTED variable. Try out and let me know..

Hello,

Linux is available other languages too ... use following command to list current settings
Basically you need to set LANG variable
Set Example language in Deutschland
or
If you have lots of users add settings to their ~/.bash_profile file. Let me know if you need any further help.

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Thank you monk and nixcraft for your reply

First of all, I tell you how I tried to struggle with it:
I have changed /etc/sysconfig/i18n file as follows:

LANG="en_US.utf8"
SUPPORTED="en_US.utf8:en_US:en:fr_FR.utf8:fr_FR:fr :es_ES.utf8:es_ES:es:de_DE.utf8:de_DE:de:sv_SE.utf 8:sv_SE:sv:zh_CN.utf8:
zh_CN:zh:zh_TW.utf8:zh_TW:zh:ja_JP.utf8:ja_JP:ja:k o_KR.utf8:ko_KR:ko"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"


When I run the command localedef -f SHIFT_JIS -i ja_JP ja_JP.SJIS (proposed by monk) I get the following:
character map `SHIFT_JIS' is not ASCII compatible, locale not ISO C compliant

I do not even see ja_JP.SJIS in the list given by commands locale –a or locale –m.

My target is to stay with a system in English but which can display all international languages files correctly (including and
especially East Asian Language. And this must be done remotely ,I mean through SSH console.

I am thinking that the problem might have a relationship with encoding or UTF-8 so that the remote console can encode
or translate different characters but I do not know how to deal with it.

The result of locale –a and locale –m are shown below (note that I couldn’t write the whole result because the list is too long .
I only have chosen locale having a relationship with my languages [English, French, Spanish, Swedish, German, Chinese, Japanese and Korean]):

The console I am using to access the server is Secure Shell (TM) Version 3.2.2
When I set the terminal answerback as vt100 or xterm I always get the same thing (messy character

Thank you


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I have the whole necessary locales because the result of locale –a is the following:



GERMAN

de_AT
de_AT@euro
de_AT.iso88591
de_AT.iso885915@euro
de_AT.utf8
de_BE
de_BE@euro
de_BE.iso88591
de_BE.iso885915@euro
de_BE.utf8
de_CH
de_CH.iso88591
de_CH.utf8
de_DE
de_DE@euro
de_DE.iso88591
de_DE.iso885915@euro
de_DE.utf8
de_LU
de_LU@euro
de_LU.iso88591
de_LU.iso885915@euro
de_LU.utf8
deutsch
dutch

ENGLISH

en_AU
en_AU.iso88591
en_AU.utf8
en_BW
en_BW.iso88591
en_BW.utf8
en_CA
en_CA.iso88591
en_CA.utf8
en_DK
en_DK.iso88591
en_DK.utf8
en_GB
en_GB.iso88591
en_GB.iso885915
en_GB.utf8
en_GB.UTF-8
en_HK
en_HK.iso88591
en_HK.utf8
en_IE
en_IE@euro
en_IE.iso88591
en_IE.iso885915@euro
en_IE.utf8
en_IN
en_IN.utf8
en_NZ
en_NZ.iso88591
en_NZ.utf8
en_PH
en_PH.iso88591
en_PH.utf8
en_SG
en_SG.iso88591
en_SG.utf8
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.iso885915
en_US.utf8
en_ZA
en_ZA.iso88591
en_ZA.utf8
en_ZW
en_ZW.iso88591
en_ZW.utf8

SPANISH

es_AR
es_AR.iso88591
es_AR.utf8
es_BO
es_BO.iso88591
es_BO.utf8
es_CL
es_CL.iso88591
es_CL.utf8
es_CO
es_CO.iso88591
es_CO.utf8
es_CR
es_CR.iso88591
es_CR.utf8
es_DO
es_DO.iso88591
es_DO.utf8
es_EC
es_EC.iso88591
es_EC.utf8
es_ES
es_ES@euro
es_ES.iso88591
es_ES.iso885915@euro
es_ES.utf8
es_GT
es_GT.iso88591
es_GT.utf8
es_HN
es_HN.iso88591
es_HN.utf8
es_MX
es_MX.iso88591
es_MX.utf8
es_NI
es_NI.iso88591
es_NI.utf8
es_PA
es_PA.iso88591
es_PA.utf8
es_PE
es_PE.iso88591
es_PE.utf8
es_PR
es_PR.iso88591
es_PR.utf8
es_PY
es_PY.iso88591
es_PY.utf8
es_SV
es_SV.iso88591
es_SV.utf8
estonian
es_US
es_US.iso88591
es_US.utf8
es_UY
es_UY.iso88591
es_UY.utf8
es_VE
es_VE.iso88591
es_VE.utf8


FRENCH

fr_BE
fr_BE@euro
fr_BE.iso88591
fr_BE.iso885915@euro
fr_BE.utf8
fr_CA
fr_CA.iso88591
fr_CA.utf8
fr_CH
fr_CH.iso88591
fr_CH.utf8
french
fr_FR
fr_FR@euro
fr_FR.iso88591
fr_FR.iso885915@euro
fr_FR.utf8
fr_LU
fr_LU@euro
fr_LU.iso88591
fr_LU.iso885915@euro
fr_LU.utf8


JAPANESE

ja_JP
ja_JP.eucjp
ja_JP.sjis
ja_JP.ujis
ja_JP.utf8
japanese
japanese.euc

KOREAN

ko_KR
ko_KR.euckr
ko_KR.utf8
korean
korean.euc

CHINESE

zh_CN
zh_CN.gb18030
zh_CN.gb2312
zh_CN.gbk
zh_CN.utf8
zh_HK
zh_HK.big5hkscs
zh_HK.utf8
zh_SG
zh_SG.gb2312
zh_SG.gbk
zh_SG.utf8
zh_TW
zh_TW.big5
zh_TW.euctw
zh_TW.utf8


When I run the command locale –m I get the following :

ANSI_X3.110-1983
ANSI_X3.4-1968
ARMSCII-8
ASMO_449
BIG5
BIG5-HKSCS
BS_4730
BS_VIEWDATA
CP10007
CP1125
CP1250
CP1251
CP1252
CP1253
CP1254
CP1255
CP1256
CP1257
CP1258
CP737
CP775
CP949
CSA_Z243.4-1985-1
CSA_Z243.4-1985-2
CSA_Z243.4-1985-GR
CSN_369103
CWI
DEC-MCS
DIN_66003
DS_2089
EBCDIC-AT-DE
EBCDIC-AT-DE-A
EBCDIC-CA-FR
EBCDIC-DK-NO
EBCDIC-DK-NO-A
EBCDIC-ES
EBCDIC-ES-A
EBCDIC-ES-S
EBCDIC-FI-SE
EBCDIC-FI-SE-A
EBCDIC-FR
EBCDIC-IS-FRISS
EBCDIC-IT
EBCDIC-PT
EBCDIC-UK
EBCDIC-US
ECMA-CYRILLIC
ES
ES2
EUC-JISX0213
EUC-JP
EUC-JP-MS
EUC-KR
EUC-TW
GB18030
GB2312
GBK
GB_1988-80
GEORGIAN-ACADEMY
GEORGIAN-PS
GOST_19768-74
GREEK-CCITT
GREEK7
GREEK7-OLD
HP-ROMAN8
IBM037
IBM038
IBM1004
IBM1026
IBM1047
IBM1124
IBM1129
IBM1132
IBM1133
IBM1160
IBM1161
IBM1162
IBM1163
IBM1164
IBM256
IBM273
IBM274
IBM275
IBM277
IBM278
IBM280
IBM281
IBM284
IBM285
IBM290
IBM297
IBM420
IBM423
IBM424
IBM437
IBM500
IBM850
IBM851
IBM852
IBM855
IBM856
IBM857
IBM860
IBM861
IBM862
IBM863
IBM864
IBM865
IBM866
IBM866NAV
IBM868
IBM869
IBM870
IBM871
IBM874
IBM875
IBM880
IBM891
IBM903
IBM904
IBM905
IBM918
IBM922
IEC_P27-1
INIS
INIS-8
INIS-CYRILLIC
INVARIANT
ISIRI-3342
ISO-8859-1
ISO-8859-10
ISO-8859-11
ISO-8859-13
ISO-8859-14
ISO-8859-15
ISO-8859-16
ISO-8859-2
ISO-8859-3
ISO-8859-4
ISO-8859-5
ISO-8859-6
ISO-8859-7
ISO-8859-8
ISO-8859-9
ISO-IR-197
ISO-IR-209
ISO-IR-90
ISO_10367-BOX
ISO_10646
ISO_2033-1983
ISO_5427
ISO_5427-EXT
ISO_5428
ISO_646.BASIC
ISO_646.IRV
ISO_6937
ISO_6937-2-25
ISO_6937-2-ADD
ISO_8859-1,GL
ISO_8859-SUPP
IT
JIS_C6220-1969-JP
JIS_C6220-1969-RO
JIS_C6229-1984-A
JIS_C6229-1984-B
JIS_C6229-1984-B-ADD
JIS_C6229-1984-HAND
JIS_C6229-1984-HAND-ADD
JIS_C6229-1984-KANA
JIS_X0201
JOHAB
JUS_I.B1.002
JUS_I.B1.003-MAC
JUS_I.B1.003-SERB
KOI-8
KOI8-R
KOI8-T
KOI8-U
KSC5636
LATIN-GREEK
LATIN-GREEK-1
MAC-CYRILLIC
MAC-IS
MAC-SAMI
MAC-UK
MACINTOSH
MSZ_7795.3
NATS-DANO
NATS-DANO-ADD
NATS-SEFI
NATS-SEFI-ADD
NC_NC00-10
NEXTSTEP
NF_Z_62-010
NF_Z_62-010_(1973)
NF_Z_62-010_1973
NS_4551-1
NS_4551-2
PT
PT154
PT2
RK1048
SAMI
SAMI-WS2
SEN_850200_B
SEN_850200_C
SHIFT_JIS
SHIFT_JISX0213
T.101-G2
T.61-7BIT
T.61-8BIT
TCVN5712-1
TIS-620
TSCII
UTF-8
VIDEOTEX-SUPPL
VISCII
WIN-SAMI-2
WINDOWS-31J

Hey ,

Any help about this international languages in the console is warmly appreciated

Thanks