RE: SJIS and Java properties files not displaying onSuSE 10.0. Help!

FYI:

My locale was set to ja_JP.  Turns out I had to remove all of the other
fontconfig.*.*.* files, and the one I got from Marko Walther's weblog
worked.  I guess JRE was falling back to one of those installed with the
JRE.

Is there a standardized version of the fontconfig.SuSE.properties.src
that will work with SuSE, or is the one I have (mentioned above) the
"standard"?


Thanks!

Cory

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Holmes [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 12:20 PM
To: Whitney, Cory
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [m17n] SJIS and Java properties files not displaying onSuSE
10.0. Help!

Cory,

You need to use the ja_JP locale, JPN is an older Microsoft locale
naming convention.

S.


On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 19:30 +0000, "Whitney, Cory"  wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I am running jre1.5.0_06 on SuSE 10.0 w/ gnome desktop.
> 
>  
> 
> I need to enable a Java app to display the JPN characters correctly.
> Locale is set to JPN.  Now they come up as boxes.
> 
>  
> 
> The properties files containing the strings have the JPN characters as
> Shift-Jis (SJIS)-encoded escape characters.  This works on the Windows
> side, and I can't have separate string-Properties files for Win and
> Linux, so I am hoping we can make these work on both platforms.
> 
>  
> 
> My assumption is I need a modified font.properties file to correctly
> display the strings.
> 
>  
> 
> I have tried modifying the fontconfig.SuSE.properties.src file to
> contain the information needed to map to the JPN fonts on the system,
> but unsuccessfully.
> 
>  
> 
> I have also tried adding in the font.properties.ja.SuSE into the
> directory /usr/java/jre1.5.0_06, which I downloaded from:
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/pmladek/java/font.properties. I also
tried
> changing the name of  font.properties.ja.SuSE to
> fontconfig.SuSE.properties.ja.src, but that made no difference.
> 
>  
> 
> I have downloaded the kochi - substitute rpm and installed it.  I also
> made copies of the kochi-mincho-subst.ttf  and kochi-gothic-subst.ttf
> and renamed them kochi-mincho.ttf  and kochi-gothic.ttf.
> 
>  
> 
> Another thing I tried was using the font properties file/font from
Marco
> Walther
>
(http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/marcoscorner?entry=creator_java_se_and
> _asian). But no luck there either...
> 
>  
> 
> One thing I have noticed: the (r) character (\u00ae) is showing up
> fine... 
> 
>  
> 
> I am also having the same sort of trouble getting the CHS and CHT to
> display.
> 
>  
> 
>   - Also, I have searched for bug/documentation about this, but
couldn't
> locate it.  It would be helpful to have something to buy me a little
> more time on this project...  Please let me know if there are any
> disclaimers of CJK support for jre1.5.0_06/SuSE that you know of...
> 
>  
> 
> Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
> 
>  
> 
> P.S - this is my first time working with Linux, so if I am missing
> something painfully obvious, go easy on me ;-)
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> Cory Whitney
> 
>  
> 
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