which font packages for wiki correctness in chromium [solved]

graysky · 2011-12-27 17:51:16

Some of the non-Latin page titles on the wiki require font packages. Anyone know which ones?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … t_packages

Last edited by graysky (2012-06-03 14:05:16)

jasonwryan · 2011-12-27 17:56:27

bdf-unifont has the most unicode glyphs: that should have you covered...

graysky · 2011-12-27 18:06:57

@jasonw - installing that package give no change after logout/login

jasonwryan · 2011-12-27 18:13:29

It displays fine here: did you reset your font cache?

graysky · 2011-12-27 18:37:54

@jason - yep... no change

jasonwryan · 2011-12-27 20:30:32

Do you have /usr/share/fonts/misc in your font path?

Other than that, I'm stumped...

.:B:. · 2011-12-27 21:17:40

All Asian languages at least Japanese and Chinese. The other two I don't know.

graysky · 2011-12-27 21:18:29

$ grep /fonts /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 21614.168] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/" does not exist.
[ 21614.168] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/".
[ 21614.168] 	(Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/").
[ 21614.168] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/".
[ 21614.168] 	(Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/").
	/usr/share/fonts/misc/,
	/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,
	/usr/share/fonts/Type1/

azleifel · 2011-12-27 21:49:05

If it helps, Firefox uses the following fonts when I just have the Wiki home page open:

$ lsof -p $(ps -o pid --no-headers -C firefox) | grep fonts
firefox 23199 david  mem    REG                8,1  2356632    52666 /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NanumGothic-ExtraBold.ttf
firefox 23199 david  mem    REG                8,1 10125666    11338 /usr/share/fonts/misc/unifont.bdf
firefox 23199 david  mem    REG                8,1   856543    29015 /usr/share/fonts/TTF/HardGothicNormal.ttf
firefox 23199 david  mem    REG                8,1   333636    54679 /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSansMono.ttf
firefox 23199 david  mem    REG                8,1   360337    44913 /usr/share/fonts/misc/12x13ja.pcf.gz
firefox 23199 david  mem    REG                8,1   615292     3068 /usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSerifBold.ttf
firefox 23199 david  mem    REG                8,1   672300    54678 /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf
firefox 23199 david  mem    REG                8,1   363200     7114 /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSerif.ttf
firefox 23199 david  mem    REG                8,1   720012    54672 /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSans.ttf

though I have no idea whether the non-latin characters are correct!

samuvuo · 2011-12-27 22:20:14

graysky wrote:

$ grep /fonts /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 21614.168] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/" does not exist.
[ 21614.168] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/".
[ 21614.168] 	(Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/").
[ 21614.168] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/".
[ 21614.168] 	(Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/").
	/usr/share/fonts/misc/,
	/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,
	/usr/share/fonts/Type1/

Install xorg-fonts-{100,75}dpi

beford · 2012-04-08 23:43:02

I know this is a bit old thread but since is one of the first results in google I wanted to share how I solved it, after installing this font packages all the gliph disappeared from Chromium:

ttf-thai ttf-baekmuk ttf-hannom ttf-arphic-uming ttf-tlwg

bohoomil · 2012-04-09 01:40:00

samuvuo wrote:

Install xorg-fonts-{100,75}dpi

xorg-fonts it's a really bad idea: they're not supposed to render web pages.

The missing fonts are for CJK scripts. You can install dedicated fonts (C, J, K) for any of those languages. If you happen to own a copy of Windows 7, have a look at Meiryo and other fonts dedicated for Asian languages: they look very well. Besides, check your fontconfig file responsible for non-latin languages (it should be named in an obvious way) and add references to newly installed fonts so that they are rendered correctly.

graysky · 2012-06-03 14:05:02

beford wrote:

I know this is a bit old thread but since is one of the first results in google I wanted to share how I solved it, after installing this font packages all the gliph disappeared from Chromium:
ttf-thai ttf-baekmuk ttf-hannom ttf-arphic-uming ttf-tlwg

Not that old. In the the spirit of the necrobumping policy, I feel this thread is in fact still contemporary, which is why I am replying now. I will mark as solved now but will trim down your list of 4 to just 1 (which gets most of them but not all).

# pacman -S ttf-arphic-uming

...kinda pisses me off that I need an extra 20 MB of fonts to do this when firefox does it with its native packages but whatever I also updated the chromium wiki page.

Thanks!

Last edited by graysky (2012-06-03 14:09:04)

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which font packages for wiki correctness in chromium [solved]

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