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CamperVanEnjoyer

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Registered: 2022-04-16

Posts: 2

[Solved]Displaying Unicode characters (e.g. japanese/chinese/korean)

Hello,

In my Browser (Firefox), Japanese characters, as well as Chinese and Korean characters and Emojis are not displayed. It only shows a box with the Unicode number in it instead.

The same is true for text editors; when I copy the text into Geany , I also have just the boxes, so I guess it's a system issue, not the browser.

How can I make them show?

If that's relevant, I'm using XFCE as my DE.

Last edited by CamperVanEnjoyer (2022-04-16 13:40:20)

dogknowsnx

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Registered: 2021-04-12

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Re: [Solved]Displaying Unicode characters (e.g. japanese/chinese/korean)

You'll have to install a CJK font, e.g. wqy-microhei

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progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

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Re: [Solved]Displaying Unicode characters (e.g. japanese/chinese/korean)

You'll have to install fonts for those characters, e.g. noto-fonts-cjk and noto-fonts-emoji. Another option may be wqy-microhei and ttf-joypixels.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Emoji# … nd_symbols

I think firefox should at least provide its own emoji font, so I am not completely sure that will be fixed as well.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefo … leshooting

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CamperVanEnjoyer

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Registered: 2022-04-16

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Re: [Solved]Displaying Unicode characters (e.g. japanese/chinese/korean)

Solved, thanks all!