Japanese support on Cacko ROM

[ashikase]

Here's something I posted in another thread (What would you like to see in Cacko 1.22 ROM?...):

The process of re-adding Japanese support is extremely simple:

1. install japanese-support_1.0_arm.ipk (see linked thread mentioned in my last post)
2. in Settings, use the Language panel to switch the system locale to Japanese
3. run Stubear's conversion script, which will restore English menus and icon names (while maintaining the Japanese locale). This way, you will have English menus and such again, but still have the ability to install and use Japanese software. A version of Stubear's script is available here.

Steps 2 and 3 can be done in either order... probably better to do step 3 first if you can't read any Japanese.

The only issue that remains is the ctrl/alt issue (see previous post). If you don't want to mess with the kernel, you might be able to restore the functionality of the kanji/kana keys using keyhelper, if you can determine the proper key names.

Someone want to make this into a faq? This question seems to come up quite a bit.

- ashikase
  anpachi, gifu, japan

[DeadJB]

My only issue now, after doing the Japanese text upgrade, is that there's no clear way to input with Japanese text. Even if you use the onscreen selector to choose your input method, there are many times where it just won't switch to Japanese, or (on some very rare instances) English.