utf8???

tony5429 · 2007-10-13 06:35:51

When I installed my arch64 system, I chose "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" for the locale in my /etc/locale.gen. Almost everything works - I can see Chinese characters on Chinese web sites and Japanese characters on Japanese web sites. However, some characters still don't work for me... If I go to http://wikipedia.org, everything in the "100,000+" section shows up but some of the others just show up a the little squares. I have posted a screenshot here...

http://wikicode.frihost.net/screenshot.png

Does anyone else have this problem? Can anyone help me?

somairotevoli · 2007-10-13 07:00:06

Is that a screenshot of what you see or how it's supposed to look? because your screenshot show everything correctly.

Last edited by somairotevoli (2007-10-13 07:00:31)

tony5429 · 2007-10-13 07:15:36

That is what it looks like right now. Do you see all the weird squares in the first line of "10 000+" and throughout the rest of it?

Mikko777 · 2007-10-13 08:12:16

tony5429 wrote:

That is what it looks like right now. Do you see all the weird squares in the first line of "10 000+" and throughout the rest of it?

Does it really matter? Do you really need to read tamil etc

But utf8 is just the coding, you need to have font support for those languages as well.

somairotevoli · 2007-10-13 08:13:05

duh, I see what you mean the domino type squares. I thought you meant squares like the ones here.
Sorry, I didn't check to compare w/ the original, as I didn't see squares like you would normallly see when characters aren't displayed correctly.
That is really odd, I just assumed it was characters for some obsure language....lol... It's late I should go to bed;)

Last edited by somairotevoli (2007-10-13 08:13:56)

[vEX] · 2007-10-13 08:34:11

Odd, I got UTF8 and I can see all of them except one (Cambodian/Phéasa Khmér).

My locale settings:

$ locale
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.utf8
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME=sv_SE.utf8
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY=sv_SE.utf8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT=sv_SE.utf8
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=

$ locale -a
C
POSIX
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
sv_SE
sv_SE.iso88591
sv_SE.utf8
swedish

My installed fonts (some come from AUR):

$ pacman -Qs ttf
local/ttf-arphic-ukai 0.1.20060928-1
    Kaiti (brush stroke) unicode TTFonts
local/ttf-arphic-uming 0.1.20060928-4
    Mingti (printed) unicode TTFonts
local/ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-5
    Bitstream vera fonts
local/ttf-cheapskate 2.0-5
    TTFonts collection from dustimo.com
local/ttf-dejavu 2.20-1
    Font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts. Dejavu fonts cover a wider
    range of characters
local/ttf-fossfonts 0.0.3-2
    Collection of 108 GPL/Public-Domain licenced .ttf fonts. Included are the
    Tuffy family with extended members, and the Open Bar Codes project fonts.
local/ttf-freefont 20060126-4
    A set of free high-quality TrueType fonts covering the UCS character set
local/ttf-indic-otf 0.2-3
    Indic Opentype Fonts collection
local/ttf-isabella 1.003-3
    Historic Isabella TTFont - based on Isabella Breviary, made around 1497, in
    Holland, for Isabella of Castille, the first queen of united Spain
local/ttf-mph-2b-damase 001.000.3-3
    Super-Unicode TTFont covering full Plane 1, and the following scripts:
    Armenian, Buginese, Cherokee, Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic, Deseret,
    Georgian, Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri but no Mkhedruli, Glagolitic, Gothic, Greek, Hanunoo, Hebrew, Latin, Limbu, Linear B, Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Osmanya, Shavian, Syloti Nagri, Tai Le, Thaana, Tifinagh, Ugaritic, Vietnamese
local/ttf-ms-fonts 2.0-1
    Un-extracted TTF Fonts from Microsoft
local/ttf-sil-fonts 3-1
    A collection of OFL-licensed fonts from SIL
local/ttf-tibetan-machine 20020930-1
    Tibetan Machine TTFont

And last, my rc.conf font/encoding settings (though I think those only affect the terminal):

LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
CONSOLEFONT="lat1-16"

tony5429 · 2007-10-13 15:51:56

Thanks! I'll try some of that out and get back to ya! And miko777: actually I do as I am developing a multi-language web-based translator (http://rosetta2.com). Thanks again!

tony5429 · 2007-10-23 18:48:11

ttf-freefont helped a lot. thanks!

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#1 2007-10-13 06:35:51

utf8???

#2 2007-10-13 07:00:06

Re: utf8???

#3 2007-10-13 07:15:36

Re: utf8???

#4 2007-10-13 08:12:16

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#5 2007-10-13 08:13:05

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#6 2007-10-13 08:34:11

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#7 2007-10-13 15:51:56

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