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Hello,
I have trouble with the display of Japanese characters. I do have fonts for them, but my system seems to prefer some other language for displaying these characters (I don't know which language, it is not simplified Chinese). Some websites display characters as Japanese but some display them differently. I tried following the steps on the arch wiki site Localization/Japanese and edited my /etc/locale.gen as described. I also changed the font fallback order on about:config for firefox to have Japanese at top. Does someone have an idea what else I can do, to ensure that han characters are displayed in their Japanese form? I uses hyprland by the way, if this is relevant.
Thank you very much!
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Can you confirm what you actually want to achieve?
Locales and fonts you see when browsing Japanese websites or when Japanese text is used somewhere are different things.
Locales control system language and regional formatting (for example: UI language, date formats, number formatting like 10,000.00 vs 10.000,00, sorting rules, etc.). This is what you would change if you wanted your desktop environment and system messages to be in Japanese.
If you just want to be able to use and read Japanese, you primarily just need the font packages installed that can display those characters and then its a case of whether the applications you use like browsers are picking those up correctly.
What font packages do you have, what issues exactly are you getting?
「これは日本語ですか？」Do you see the hiragana and kanji correctly?
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Hi, thanks for your answer, I am sorry if I have not been clear.
I do have Japanese Fonts and I can read what you wrote just fine. But if I type for example 平 on this website, it is displayed to me like 異体字 form you can see here: http://blog.livedoor.jp/atori_kotoba/ar … 33766.html. This is also what I see when I type 平 in my console (I use Alacritty). My goal would be to archive, that my system displays characters like this consistently in its Japanese form, be it on websites or on applications I use. Is there any way to archive this? (If I use Youtube or Wikipedia 平 looks right for me, so I must have the right font for it. But on some websites like for example this forum the character displays differently for me) .
EDIT: After investigating a bit further, I am pretty sure that the unicode poits are displayed in their Korean forms as standard for me. I have no idea why.
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