When a user logs in to a Japanese locale, what happens behind the scenes? At what point are Japanese characters displayed?
After the user selects a Japanese locale and the corresponding packages are installed, the input method daemon and other Japanese-specific daemons will run in the background. When Japanese input mode is on, the keyboard input is grabbed by Htt, the X Input Method Server. Htt communicates with the Japanese input daemon, such as ATOK12, to convert the input strings to Japanese characters. The results are sent back to the application that has the keyboard focus. Japanese characters will not be displayed unless the user logs in to one of the Japanese locales (ja, ja_JP.eucJP, ja_JP.PCK, or ja_JP.UTF-8) from the CDE dtlogin menu. If Japanese characters are not displayed when the user is logged in to a Japanese locale, it is possible that only the partial Japanese locales were installed from the Software CDs. If most of the GUI environment is in English but the user wants to use the Japanese GUI environment, he or she can install the Japanese message packages and extra features from the Lang
