How to set up a new user with Japanese (Fedora 38)?

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I have a laptop with an existing English Fedora installation. I created a new user account with GNOME desktop and want to change this user to Japanese. However there is no option for this anywhere in the GNOME configuration. Region & Language only shows English options. What do I do?

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Installing langpacks-ja and rebooting did not help.

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Hum, I have Japanese available there. Is glibc-all-langpacks installed? If not, does installing that fix it? (seems like a bug even if it does, but…)

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Installing:
 glibc-all-langpacks       x86_64       2.37-10.fc38        updates        18 M
Upgrading:
 glibc                     x86_64       2.37-10.fc38        updates       2.1 M
 glibc-common              x86_64       2.37-10.fc38        updates       319 k
 glibc-devel               x86_64       2.37-10.fc38        updates        52 k
 glibc-gconv-extra         x86_64       2.37-10.fc38        updates       1.6 M
 glibc-headers-x86         noarch       2.37-10.fc38        updates       534 k
 glibc-langpack-en         x86_64       2.37-10.fc38        updates       634 k
 glibc-static              x86_64       2.37-10.fc38        updates       1.7 M
Installing weak dependencies:
 glibc-langpack-ja         x86_64       2.37-10.fc38        updates       352 k

Interesting that it’s a weak dependency and that it wasn’t pulled in by langpacks-ja …

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And that did fix it after another reboot.