how to display japanese on english linux

["Manju Bansal, Noida" <manju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi people,
I am stuck up in displaying japanese text on english version of Linux. What i m trying is, i hv installed unicode fonts on my red-hatlinux(english) machine and changed the locale to ja_JP. Now i m trying to display japanese fonts using various syatem calls such as 'date' , editors such as 'vi' and some uniocde-compliant programs too. But none of them showed up any japanese fonts. :-(

 

First of all, do the system calls such as 'date' etc give japanese output when locale is changed to japanese with the unicode fonts installed on the machine...?? How to display the japanese ,or for that matter, any of the unicode fonts at all on an english linux machine..??? I feel i hv missed some environment settings..???

 

Plzzzzzzzz help.
-Manju