Having Problem with Asian Fonts

ducttapeBigSexy · 2006-07-01 22:10:17

I'm having a problem installing the packages ttf-arphic-ukai and ttf-arphic-uming. They install fine, but it completely corrupts all my fonts.

Any new applications that are launched (or when KDE is relaunched) have nothing but boxes for the fonts, and, when I log out of KDE to KDM, everything appears as boxes. If I log in to KDE and check out the Fonts section in KControl, it just crashes.

Thinking it was just a KDE issue, I installed Fluxbox, and it won't even start.

This is a brand new installed based off of the 0.7.2 base ISO, and I've updated everything completely. Before the fonts are installed, everything is working perfectly. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Pajaro · 2006-07-02 07:50:05

On Friday I started to develop a page that had japanese translation. I had no problems with it.

Anyway, I realized something that may help you. No matter what font i choosed, japanesse characters where allways showed, and they were always the same.

It means that asian fonts override standard fonts. What can be happening to you is that you don't have the fonts properly configured (either the fonts by themselves, or in Xorg).

I don't know enough about fonts to give you more information about it, but what you should do after reading this is uninstall all asiatic fonts, install japanese fonts, install kde-i18n-jp and create an a user account with KDE set to japanese language and see if it works well to you. If it does not work then the problem is in your configuration. If it works well then do the same with the asian fonts. If they are still not working then to me it looks as a bug, and you should report it.

mingfal · 2006-07-02 11:16:55

The problem is probably because of the new version of qt,ie qt3.6.Everything was fine with qt3.5 but after upgrading to 3.6,the font replacement settings in fonts.conf or local.conf didn't work anymore in qt/KDE applications.You have to manully configure it in qtconfig.But after that the bold font will disappear.
It seems no perfect solution by now.
Everyone who need CJK support is waiting for qt4 & kde 4.

mingfal · 2006-07-02 11:29:51

@ducttapeBigSexy
you use ttf-arphic-uming so you know Chinese right?
If so ,please read these posts for details.

http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/showthread.php?t=247390
http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/showthread.php?t=231724
http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/showthread.php?t=254314

ducttapeBigSexy · 2006-07-02 17:02:02

mingfal wrote:

@ducttapeBigSexy
you use ttf-arphic-uming so you know Chinese right?

Ha - I wish! Nah, I'm just interested in Asian entertainment, and it bugs me when I go to a site and see garbage

It was working up until I reinstalled my computer last week, so I'm guessing it's just something configured wrong. I'll play around with qtconfig and see what I can dig up - thanks!

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Having Problem with Asian Fonts

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