We provide language and cultural support for several Asian languages, including Japanese. The large number of characters in the Japanese language makes it impossible to arrange them on a keyboard. Therefore, an input method, called the input server, is used to make sequences of keyboard events that correspond to each kanji character. The input server for WorldView(TM) Japanese is called xwnmo2.  It translates your input of phonetic symbols into the equivalent character or characters and provides a list of choices when there is any ambiguity.
 

Localization

To customize your system to recognize certain conventions, such as date and time formats, currency format, and sorting order, as well as to display information and accept input in Japanese, please follow the steps below.

• Select Desktop Customize Language from the Toolchest to invoke the ipanel (International Settings Control Panel).

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• Type ipanel at a shell prompt.

Country

• Click the left mouse button over the Country icon at the bottom of the ipanel, then select Japan from the list of countries in the next window.

Language

• Click the left mouse button over the Language icon at the bottom of the ipanel, then select Japanese from the list of languages in the next window.

Keyboards

Your system has one of several possible keyboards. Although ipanel provides you with a default keyboard configuration, you should either confirm the default or select a different configuration.
 

• Click the left mouse button over the Keyboard icon at the bottom of the ipanel, then select the keyboard configuration you wish to use from  Keyboard Selection window.

Timezone

• Click the left mouse button over the Time Zone icon at the bottom of the ipanel, then select the timezone you wish to use from the list of timezones in the next window.

When you have made all your selections:

• Click either Set System button or Set Personal button.
• In the next window, ipanel confirms the new setting you've made.  Click Logout Now button to log out.
• Log in again with the same account so that these modifications can take effect in any new window.

Printing

To print a Japanese language text file, use the Printer Manager to set up a Japanese language printer, then use the following command:

% lp -dprinter textfile

where printer is the name of your printer and textfile is the name of your file. If no Japanese language printer is available, use the following command:

% lpjtext textfile | lp