[CentOS] SSH prompt: Need advise from Japan

[Ross Cavanagh]

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Fajar Priyanto <fajarpri at arinet.org> wrote:

> I see. Thanks Ross. That makes sense.
>
> Sent from Samsung Galaxy ^^
> On Aug 6, 2012 8:12 PM, "Ross Cavanagh" <ross.cav at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Fajar Priyanto <fajarpri at arinet.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Ross Cavanagh <ross.cav at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > You're prompt will reference whatever the hostname is doesn't it? I'm
> > > > located in Tokyo, I haven't setup any servers with Japanese hostnames
> > > > actually, but on occasion some filenames are written in Japanese.
> What
> > is
> > > > it you wanted to see exactly? It also depends on the keyboard setup
> you
> > > > have set to the default. Most people in Japan set the keyboard to a
> US
> > > > style - where they enter romaji, and don't usually enter the kana
> from
> > > the
> > > > different keyboard layout. So, you type the roman characters ra for
> > > example
> > > > to make ら, but there is a Japanese keyboard layout where you can type
> > > the ら
> > > > character directly - but I never really see that used.
> > > >
> > > > So, as far as I know, you'll be using whatever input methods you
> > actually
> > > > have on your local system where you're ssh'ing from. So, if you
> needed
> > to
> > > > write Japanese input you'd need some local IME on your particular
> > system.
> > >
> > > Hi Ross, thanks for your time. What I want to know is, during the
> > > initial ssh login.
> > > Will it display the dialogue fully in Japanese? e.g. fajar at 8.8.8.8's
> > > password: (will it be in Japanese?)
> > >
> > > As far as I'm aware, you would be seeing virtually everything in
> English
> > as the directory structures are in English. Usually people's home
> > directories are setup in English, I don't think I've ever come across a
> > user login that does use Japanese actually (not sure if you can -
> otherwise
> > your SSH connection you'd have to match you user name - eg. Ross would be
> > my katakana name, ロス＠8.8.8.8 - don't even know it's possible). I've
> worked
> > at one Japanese company as the only foreigner, and all others companies
> > have been international ones - but everyone uses Roman characters for
> their
> > logins and not kana or kanji.
> >
> > Same with passwords.
> >
> > Usually, on systems I've seen in Japan most of the time files and folders
> > are creating using Roman characters for naming (most of the time).
> Within a
> > document, of course it could be written 100% in Japanese. Some folders
> and
> > files can be in Japanese, so it can be hard to navigate through some
> > directories if you don't have any IME tools for Japanese input. Lots of
> tab
> > autocomplete and copy and pasting at times - but that's usually within a
> > home directory for a user for example.
>
> I just quickly started up a CentOS VM to check something...

[root at CENT01 ~]# useradd -m ロス
useradd: invalid user name 'ロス'

So, looks like it needs to be in Roman characters.

But it appears even I have some issues via my terminal too:

[root at CENT01 ~]# useradd -m ross
[root at CENT01 ~]# cd /home/ross/
[root at CENT01 ross]# touch ロス
[root at CENT01 ross]# ls
??????

So, my Japanese input isn't being displayed. But I did get a warning when I
SSH'd in about that:

-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (UTF-8)

Hope that helps.