Japanese Fonts

shaurz · 2006-02-19 17:47:28

My system used to be able to display Japanese characters in Firefox, Konqueror, KWrite, etc. I can't remember exactly when (sometime in the last month or two) an update destroyed this capability and most characters are now displayed as a box or a box with numbers inside. What happen? Somebody set up me the bomb?

paul2lv · 2006-02-19 18:13:34

IIRC, the last fontconfig update did that to me too. I had to symlink some file or something. See http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=139606#139606 for more exact instructions. I think this happened because japanese fonts are bitmaps.

shaurz · 2006-02-19 22:47:37

Well, I found Arial Unicode MS on an MS Office CD and installed that. Don't know why I didn't think of that earlier.

(also Bitstream Cyberbit)

vladuz976 · 2006-02-23 14:43:03

shaurz wrote:

Well, I found Arial Unicode MS on an MS Office CD and installed that. Don't know why I didn't think of that earlier.
(also Bitstream Cyberbit)

try this one

http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/jpninpt.html

codemac · 2006-02-23 14:59:55

For anyone who just get's blanks, and missing characters instead of asian text, ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/yes-bitmaps.conf should fix you up.

elcalen · 2006-03-07 22:42:11

codemac wrote:

For anyone who just get's blanks, and missing characters instead of asian text, ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/yes-bitmaps.conf should fix you up.

Uh, tried that but I get: ln: `/etc/fonts/conf.d/yes-bitmaps.conf': File exists.

_Gandalf_ · 2006-03-07 23:49:23

elcalen wrote:

codemac wrote:
For anyone who just get's blanks, and missing characters instead of asian text, ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/yes-bitmaps.conf should fix you up.
Uh, tried that but I get: ln: `/etc/fonts/conf.d/yes-bitmaps.conf': File exists.

coz his command is wrong, do this instead

rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-bitmaps.conf
ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.d/yes-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-bitmap.conf

codemac · 2006-03-08 05:47:01

Sorry about that...

elcalen · 2006-03-08 14:56:48

Thanks. Japanese text shows fine in Firefox now.

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#1 2006-02-19 17:47:28

Japanese Fonts

#2 2006-02-19 18:13:34

Re: Japanese Fonts

#3 2006-02-19 22:47:37

Re: Japanese Fonts

#4 2006-02-23 14:43:03

Re: Japanese Fonts

#5 2006-02-23 14:59:55

Re: Japanese Fonts

#6 2006-03-07 22:42:11

Re: Japanese Fonts

#7 2006-03-07 23:49:23

Re: Japanese Fonts

#8 2006-03-08 05:47:01

Re: Japanese Fonts

#9 2006-03-08 14:56:48

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