[mythtv-users] how to select a Language in mythfrontend?

[Bruce Markey]

Nicole Wall wrote:
> Hi,
>  
>      I'd like to choose Japanese for mythffrontend. But there are no 
> such options in
> setting>language (there are about 10 languages to choose).

Anno, "Nihongo" desu ka? 

>       I installed mythtv from its source and  there is 
> mythtvfrontend_ja.ts, mythtvfrontend_ja.qm under the source's 
> directory's i18n/.
>  
> What do I need to do ?

Japanese support has been contributed recently and I believe
is in 0.14 but more features have been added since such as the
program finder can sort by kana spellings. So, the best
support would be in current CVS.

The language names are generally written in the native language.
If you were in Japan would you know to choose "Eigo" or worse yet,
the katakana characters for Eigo rather than the more familiar
"English"? Japanese is a slight exception because not everyone has
Kanji character sets installed so to prevent problems for everyone
else, it is written in romanji as "Nihongo". This is not as nice as
Kanji but should be easily recognized by those who speak Japanese.

--  bjm