Two problems:

1. Japanese characters appear as little boxes instead of Kanji/Kana.
2. There is no option to select Japanese in the language options, just a bunch of flags with all kinds of English/European options.

I have tried reinstalling. I have tried going through the Japanese language download on the Limewire page, which leads to a non-working Linux link.

I have tried the beta and I have tried the 4.12 version. I even tried installing again in a Japanese language environment...no dice. All my other programs seem to display Java just fine.

I'm using Fedora Core 5 and 4.12 or 4.13. Can anyone give useful advice on how to solve this or sleuth out what is going wrong? Things like "it's probably not a Limewire issue, try checking Java" aren't very helpful. If someone does indeed have Japanese display working, please tell me what system you're using and what input method.

Thanks very much. I hope someone can help me. Why isn't it even offering me the option to choose Japanese as a _display_ language?!! Any clues?

Have you tried exporting the locale like this:

export LC_ALL=ja_JP

and then starting limewire:

/usr/bin/limewire

What's strange to me is that when I try to change the Limewire language options, it doesn't even _load_ anything that's not vanilla Western...no option to choose Chinese or Korean or Thai or anything. It's as if I downloaded the wrong version or it's picking up on a locale setting incorrectly and _only_ offering me certain languages.

Sigh...it's a royal pain. Thanks for taking the time to make a suggestion.

It sounds to me like the language kit you have is either not properly installed or not functioning properly. Perhaps not properly with the version of Java you have. I don't use Linux. I use Mac OSX, which I had the japanese fonts installed with since i had the option & to enable it thru font options in system prefs. So Japanese tends to appear fine. Plus I have the japanese option. The fact you don't have japanese option showing as in your 2nd problem suggests what I initially suggested. (or if it is properly installed, then is it enabled. Perhaps it's not totally compatible with your version of Linux, since as little as I know about Linux, there seems to be so many versions & variations of it.)

(BTW your problem of boxes showing reminds me of what happens with many windows users, because they don't have the appropriate language support.)

Sorry if my post is not helpful, but just attempting to help in the process to find the issue/area at fault.


http://www.gnutellaforums.com/downlo...tml#post272457

I'm using Fedora Core 5 and can read and write Japanese in my email client, my desktop, my word processor (Open Office, which I believe also uses Java), my web browser, my xterm window, and every other application. So the issue of fonts being installed isn't a problem. The issue of being able to input or read Japanese system-wide isn't a problem. The problem is exclusive to LimeWire, and seems to be something that's at the rpm or source level -- somehow it has not been compiled with proper Japanese support. Which makes me think that perhaps I need to try recompiling from source instead of using the rpm. Perhaps that will help.

Either way, thank you for the suggestion. It may indeed be some option that I'm missing that for some reason is causing ONLY LimeWire to not work properly, but I've tried using an entirely Japanese desktop and LimeWire still came up the same way. I suspect there's another problem, perhaps one more unique to my system config or something. Clearly not too many people are having this issue or there'd be more out there on what's going wrong... :-)

Changing the language to Arabic worked out of the box after restarting LimeWire. After I switched to an Arabic keyboard I could also enter Arabic letters.

Did the suggestion help? If so you can edit /usr/bin/limewire and add the export command there before LimeWire is actually launched.