From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: The KON console doesn't do what it's supposed to do... display Japanese characters properly. Japanese character sets were installed at install time, and Japanese was set as the default language. Naturally enough, no Japanese is visible from the command line until the kon terminal is started. When it *is* started, a mish-mash of Japanese comes out when bash errors happen, or when a Japanese man page is accessed. I heard that some Japanese character sets were pulled out of Fedora during Fedora 2's testing stages. Maybe this is the cause. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install computer with Japanese character sets. 2. start KON with the command "kon" from command prompt. 3. Make a command guaranteed to give Japanese output (such as "man fstab") 4. Try and decipher the garbage Actual Results: I couldn't read anything because what came out was definitely NOT legible Japanese! Expected Results: I should have been able to read the man page in Japanese. Additional info:
I believe kon doesn't support UTF-8, correct?
is the LANG set to ja_JP.UTF-8 or ja_JP.eucJP ? kon only supports the legacy euc-jp encoding.
Yes, right. although it's the enhancement, since we have done UTF-8 locale transition, it's important problem unless we drop it. I'm wondering if kon2 is prefered rather than bogl. Actually PC to which kon2 doesn't work is growing.
kon2 is replaced with bterm in latest Fedora. Please open a new bug if you see any problem in bterm.