How to Set Up Japanese Fonts and Locales on Linux
Channel: Emilia Merge
Date: 2022-04-24

Local anime girl pretends to be able to read kanji

Relevant links:
Gentoo wiki on reading and writing Japanese: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/How_to_read_and_write_in_Japanese/en
Gentoo wiki on locales: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Localization/Guide
Arch wiki on reading and writing Japanese: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Localization/Japanese
Arch wiki on locales: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Locale
musl open issues (including locale support): https://wiki.musl-libc.org/open-issues.html

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:25 What things look like without proper fonts
02:52 Listing off good Japanese fonts
05:01 After installing Japanese fonts
06:01 Do you need Japanese locales?
06:54 Adding locales (glibc-specific)
09:45 Testing this newly-added locale
11:01 Overview of setting this locale globally
11:36 Setting locale systemwide with systemd (two ways)
12:54 Setting locale systemwide with eselect
13:36 Setting locale per-user
14:06 A couple other locale settings
14:59 Making the locale settings take effect
15:49 Note about l10n and language packs
16:49 Outtro

Might do a follow-up at some point talking about IMEs, but mine doesn't wanna bring up the preferences window anymore and I'm not sure why. So that's gonna have to wait a little bit.