CJK package and \figurename

Question

I'm using the cjk package to typeset a Japanese document, but somehow can't change the \figurename into CJK. I tried in the preamble,

\renewcommand{\figurename}{図}

but it only give me an empty string before the figure number in the figure captions. Could anybody tell me the way out? I'm using \begin{CJK}{UTF8}{min} ... \end{CJK} in the main part.

(I need to use CJK instead of XeLaTeX, because I need to post the document to a preprint server which doesn't have Unicode-enabled TeX system.)

Answer 1

1. You should put the redifinition in a CJK environment.
2. Make it global.

Because of 1, you cannot directly use

\renewcommand{\figurename}{図}

in the preamble.

Because of 2, you cannot use

\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{min}
\renewcommand{\figurename}{図}
\end{CJK}

in the preamble either.

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Solution:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{CJK}
\begin{document}
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{min}
\renewcommand{\figurename}{図}
\begin{figure}[ht]
\caption{test}
\end{figure}
\clearpage\end{CJK}
\end{document}

Better solution:

\documentclass{scrartcl} % \partformat in ja.cpx is defined
\usepackage{CJK}
\begin{document}
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{min}
\CJKcaption{ja} % Input ja.cpx for Japanese, UTF8 encoding
\begin{figure}[ht]
\caption{test}
\end{figure}
\clearpage\end{CJK}
\end{document}