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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

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Chinese fonts (DimSum, Java) [SOLVED]

Hi,

There's an excellent DimSum Chinese dictionary, written in Java. There are recommended fonts which I never managed to set up.

Now I've got two boxes: on one of them DimSum sees no Chinese fonts at all, on another the situation is better: there's Droid Sans Fallback (S, T). It actually works. The trouble is, I've got no idea where the Chinese Droid has come from and how to install it on the first box.

Last edited by Llama (2011-01-09 01:58:17)

thisoldman

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 1,172

Re: Chinese fonts (DimSum, Java) [SOLVED]

ttf-droid 20100513-3 in AUR:  http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22528

Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Re: Chinese fonts (DimSum, Java) [SOLVED]

Thank you very much, thisoldman!

How did you guess the right package, though? Tell me the secret, please...

thisoldman

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 1,172

Re: Chinese fonts (DimSum, Java) [SOLVED]

I Googled "Droid Sans Fallback".  From there, the Wikipedia page told me it was part of the full Droid font family.  Back to Google and I entered, "site:archlinux.org droid font".  The first hit is the AUR package.

I've had Droid installed before, when I was looking for a good monospace font, but it didn't work for me.  But I didn't know if the package had the "Fallback" font you were hunting.  I took two minutes to install the font, start fontmanager, http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30037, and see that Droid Sans Fallback and Droid Sans Japanese were installed with the package.

The Droid monospace font looks better to me now.  Must be the last freetype.

If you wish to use Google to search any portion of the Arch site, use:

• All of Arch Linux – "site:archlinux.org <search terms>"

• Forums – "site:bbs.archlinux.org <search terms>"

• AUR – "site:aur.archlinux.org <search terms>"

• Wiki – "site:wiki.archlinux.org <search terms>"

And so on.

If you would please edit the title of your first post to include "[Solved]", other forum users will appreciate it.