Yes, it shouldn’t. Unfortunately, the developers of GTK thrived on changes to the API during the GTK3 era. I don’t know why Go devs don’t (and I am indeed very glad that they don’t). Perhaps it’s because of the different structures of the development teams or perhaps because GTK has more hazy goals. 🤷♂️
You can use
localectl
to change the locale on Fedora. Here’s what you need to do:ja_JP.UTF-8
should be in the output oflocalectl list-locales
.sudo dnf install langpacks-ja
(I’m not 100 % sure about this and I don’t have a Fedora system to test it on.)sudo localectl set-locale LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
This will (probably) change everything to Japanese – texts in menus, error messages in the terminal, and also the font rendering. This answer on Stack Overflow suggests to do something with your
fonts.conf
. This way your UI would be in English (or your preferred language) and kanji would render as the Japanese variants.