Can't see Japanese or any asian characters

gutsyrabbit · 2015-09-01 19:21:52

Hello everyone.. after installing Arch... by the book rules i stumbled upon this : can't see asian characters even after installing japanese, chinese etc. fonts
and i also have updated locale.gen with all the languages .. so what can i do from here on, cause it's a big pain..
I cant access, move or delete anything with asian characters and if i try to.. it crashes Dolphin manager.

So please.. if anyone has the slightest suggestion on how to resolve this.

x33a · 2015-09-02 06:00:51

Which Chinese/japanese fonts have you installed? Are you not able to see the fonts even in a web browser or just dolphin?

gutsyrabbit · 2015-09-02 18:06:34

Hello
The problem is not in the browser but with the files stored on the computer.
Since with any file manager i use, i cant see japanese or chinese characters, i can't acces , delete or move those files.
And since dolphin cant manipulate those files, it crashes when it tries to.
So far i installed these fonts : adobe-source-han-sans-cn-fonts , adobe-source-han-sans-tw-fonts , opendesktop-fonts, adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts, ttf-sazanami and all the rest listed in this thread : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Vietnamese

Alad · 2015-09-02 18:15:14

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165044#c159

as well as the duplicates below that. Does it work with a GTK or terminal file manager (inside a terminal emulator that respects fontconfig, like termite) ?

Last edited by Alad (2015-09-02 18:15:24)

gutsyrabbit · 2015-09-02 18:26:29

Yes the files work with a GTK manager.
all Qt apps wont recognize Japanese chars

gutsyrabbit · 2015-09-02 19:37:57

So that means all we can do is wait for an update to show up ?

Soukyuu · 2015-09-02 23:52:16

If I understood the issue correctly, your files have broken filename encoding, which Qt apps ignore. You could set your locale to one of the utf-8 ones, then rename a file in a GTK application, and it should re-write it as utf-8. Then it should be correctly displayed in Qt apps too.
If the files use the correct encoding, then everything should be fine - I can view asian filenames just fine.

gutsyrabbit · 2015-09-04 20:48:09

Thanks for the help.
I didn't have any locale.conf file... so that was the problem.
No i can see any filenames regardless of language type.
*hugs*

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#1 2015-09-01 19:21:52

Can't see Japanese or any asian characters

#2 2015-09-02 06:00:51

Re: Can't see Japanese or any asian characters

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