[CentOS] SSH prompt: Need advise from Japan

[Fajar Priyanto]

Definitely Ross. I'll tell my friend. Thank you.

Sent from Samsung Galaxy ^^
On Aug 6, 2012 8:23 PM, "Ross Cavanagh" <ross.cav at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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