[SOLVED] Japanese Character Looks bad

cerilla · 2012-01-09 04:44:40

Hello, i just installed Arch Linux with Gnome3 DE. Everything looks good except for the Japanese character that looks bad.

Screenshot of my box
broken, potentially NSFW link due to shutdown website

I have read the Font Configuration wiki page and installed the Ubuntu patched package.
I also have installed hi-quality japanese character fonts as you can see below

[11:31]cerilla > fc-list :lang=ja
IPAMonaGothic,IPA モナー ゴシック:style=Book,Regular
Sazanami Mincho,さざなみ明朝:style=Mincho-Regular,Regular
IPAMonaMincho,IPA モナー 明朝:style=Book,Regular
IPAMonaPGothic,IPA モナー Pゴシック:style=Book,Regular
Sazanami Gothic,さざなみゴシック:style=Gothic-Regular,Regular
Fixed:style=ko
Fixed:style=ja
IPAMonaPMincho,IPA モナー P明朝:style=Regular
IPAMonaUIGothic,IPA モナー UIゴシック:style=Regular
Monapo:style=Regular

The font cache is already reloaded with fc-cache -vf command, but the problem persist
Anyway, here is my ~/.fonts.conf config file

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
       <match target="font" >
              <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
                     <const>rgb</const>
              </edit>
       </match>
       <match target="font" >
              <edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
                     <bool>true</bool>
              </edit>
       </match>
       <match target="font" >
               <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
               <const>hintslight</const>
               </edit>
       </match>
</fontconfig>

Any pointer for fixing this problem? Thanks

Last edited by V1del (2020-12-13 10:52:10)

kcirick · 2012-01-09 05:10:36

What exactly is the problem with your font? It looks fine from your screenshot...

cerilla · 2012-01-09 05:12:46

Er, it looks pretty jaggy.
In other word : No anti-aliasing

erm67 · 2012-01-09 18:13:22

For gnome it is not enough if you enable rgba subpixel rendering in fonts.conf, you have to enable it also for gnome using gnome-tweak-tool or dconf editor. I had the same problem and after some tweaking I managed to make everything look good.
see this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ta … g_settings

Last edited by erm67 (2012-01-09 18:16:07)

cerilla · 2012-01-10 04:44:17

erm67 wrote:

For gnome it is not enough if you enable rgba subpixel rendering in fonts.conf, you have to enable it also for gnome using gnome-tweak-tool or dconf editor. I had the same problem and after some tweaking I managed to make everything look good.
see this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ta … g_settings

I have tried everything that is written there, but i see no change at all
Thanks for the pointer and the talk page anyway, that's new to me

erm67 · 2012-01-10 09:17:58

What do you have now if you do a xrdb -query?

Last edited by erm67 (2012-01-10 10:18:17)

Ranmaru · 2012-01-10 10:43:20

Could you post your .Xdefaults? Seems like your fallback font does not support smoothing and your primary font just doesn't include kanji. That should at least fix it for your terminals ... I'm not sure about the GUI windows, but don't the Gnome settings provide something like a fallback font option? (I haven't used Gnome for a while, so I don't know ... forgive me.)

You might just want to change your fallback font to something like this ...

URxvt.font:xft:Inconsolata:pixelsize=13:antialias=true,xft:Droid Sans Fallback:pixelsize=12:antialias=true
URxvt.boldFont:xft:Inconsolata:pixelsize=13:Bold:antialias=true,xft:Droid Sans Fallback:pixelsize=12:Bold:antialias=true

This is what I use, and it looks like this ...

Last edited by Ranmaru (2012-01-10 10:45:12)

Procyon · 2012-01-10 16:59:29

Here are some examples of fonts I have.

Rendering is pretty awful, so I mostly used bold:

http://ompldr.org/vYzZlcA

URxvt.font: xft:Terminus:pixelsize=16,xft:EPSON\ 丸ゴシック体Ｍ:weight=bold,xft:Symbola

cerilla · 2012-01-11 05:05:04

@erm67

[12:03] cerilla > xrdb -query
Xft.antialias:	1
Xft.dpi:	96
Xft.hinting:	1
Xft.hintstyle:	hintmedium
Xft.lcdfilter:	lcddefault
Xft.rgba:	rgb

It is loaded all right, i see

@ranmaru
Sweet, that does it.
Since now i am using Xmonad/MPD instead of Gnome/Clementine, i guess i could say the problem is solved.

Thanks

Last edited by cerilla (2012-01-11 05:06:22)

jtkmt · 2012-01-15 00:23:53

You marked the thread as solved, but let me post one thing.

Install otf-ipafont in AUR, which is the most beautiful open source Japanese fonts.
And add the following section to your ~/.fonts.conf.
(DejaVu is just an example. For hinting, it depends on your liking, so I omit them.)

 <alias>
    <family>serif</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>DejaVu Serif</family>
      <family>IPAPMincho</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
  <alias>
    <family>sans-serif</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>DejaVu Sans</family>
      <family>IPAPGothic</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
  <alias>
    <family>monospace</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>DejaVu Sans Mono</family>
      <family>IPAGothic</family>
      <!-- or if you prefer serif for monospace
      <family>IPAMincho</family>
      -->
    </prefer>
  </alias>

With above, you should have a better look.

M4he · 2012-01-18 15:12:16

I don't know about terminal but I always get nice japanese characters in applications when I install ttf-droid

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