Hi, i have kinda found a method a couple years ago to import the Japanese Shift-JIS encoding from Fedora/CentOS/RHEL/OpenSuse to any other distribution and i keep forgetting to maintain the sideloading method when the kernel update broke it.
A lot of Japanese content for Windows, who are able to run into Wine, required Japanese Shift-JIS locale used mostly back in the days. Sadly, only the distros above have it in their file and nobody noticed for years. This is also a major reason why Japanese speaker never used Linux too much due to Linux never supporting Shift-JIS by default and one of the reason MacOS and Windows got a monopole there (Yeah, MacOS support it from FreeBSD).
My main issue's idk what's the license of the locale itself. The license of the package from the Fedora repo state the following for that package "LGPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ with exceptions and GPLv2+ and GPLv2+ with exceptions and BSD and Inner-Net and ISC and Public Domain and GFDL" which made me feel like it might had come from FreeBSD and might be BSD license... I am very unsure about it.
Essentially, the reply from 2018 from this bugzilla mailing list was what i found to make it work. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=136290
It would required to have a up to date fedora build and rip it from that location... Which's very inconveniant. Hence why i was hoping to have it supported by default by the kernel.
It would required to have a up to date fedora build and rip it from that location... Which's very inconveniant. Hence why i was hoping to have it supported by default by the kernel.
It's kinda my first time to the kernel mailing list, hence why i am posting in the newbie section to not annoy anybody in the more official channel. IDK either how i can contribute the patch. I really hope this local can be included by default upstream so it get supported for the Japanese user to have their classic game supported in Wine so Linux could spare them from Windows 10's current issue.
-Regard, HerbalNekoTea
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