Missing Asian Characters in Chromium

Espionage724 · 2014-07-22 17:01:24

http://i.imgur.com/fvMYVPN.png?1

It seems Asian characters (not sure if it's just Japanese and Chinese characters specifically missing or pretty much all Asian fonts) are missing in Chromium, and just show up as boxes.

I have a few music files on my computer with some Japanese characters, and they show up fine in Nautilus and DeaDBeeF. So it seems the problem is only with Chromium.

I also recall seeing similar behavior in other Linux distros (openSUSE and Ubuntu) with Google Chrome.

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ugjka · 2014-07-22 17:09:08

This should work for most stuff

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/fonts

To properly render fonts for multilingual websites like Wikipedia or this Arch Linux wiki, install these packages: ttf-freefont, ttf-arphic-uming, ttf-baekmuk

Last edited by ugjka (2014-07-22 17:13:18)

Espionage724 · 2014-07-22 17:34:21

ugjka wrote:

This should work for most stuff
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/fonts
To properly render fonts for multilingual websites like Wikipedia or this Arch Linux wiki, install these packages: ttf-freefont, ttf-arphic-uming, ttf-baekmuk

Ah, that did it, thanks!

Ledti · 2014-07-22 19:34:45

These fonts might be a better alternative since they're more consistent and possibly of higher quality than the ones link on that wiki page.

Last edited by Ledti (2014-07-22 19:35:01)

Espionage724 · 2014-07-22 19:49:45

Ledti wrote:

These fonts might be a better alternative since they're more consistent and possibly of higher quality than the ones link on that wiki page.

These actually work a bit better Thanks!

In my Gmail, I noticed one of my emails had two Japanese characters in the title that were un-readable with the previous fonts (stokes were missing). The strokes show up fine with the Adobe fonts though.

Last edited by Espionage724 (2014-07-22 19:50:02)

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Missing Asian Characters in Chromium

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