[Novalug] OT? Japanese

[Beartooth]

 	My son came to visit. Of course I put a userid for him on 
the guest room computer (set to /sbin/nologin, like all the 
others but mine till he arrived; kept shutdown except for 
occasional updating, and with no access to the Net, wired nor 
wireless).

 	Waste of effort: he's a permanent resident of Japan, and 
of course had to be able to do Japanese stuff, even for instance 
to cook, let alone telecommute. He brought his own laptop.

 	So I'm wondering : what would I have had to do? Not 
uninstall Japanese from the never to be sufficiently accursed 
weeds, aka language packs, that sprout ever anew in Firefox. 
Obviously.

 	If as I think gmail is basically a web app, does that do 
it all? (His main if not only email address is there.) Or are 
there other things? Would he need all of the OS to run in 
Japanese? (He did grow up in this country, and his English is 
still as good as anyone's.)

 	I don't even know if this is a Fedora question, or a 
linux question, or something else. I know two or three words of 
spoken Japanese, and he doesn't run linux ...

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Beartooth Implacable, Historian of Tongues from Way Back
Double Retiree, Linux Duffer, Curmudgeon On Line