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#1 2007-11-01 01:47:18
- onesandzeros
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can Japanese on Arch look as good as Japanese on Gentoo?
Hello all,
Arch has really gotten my attention, but I've hit a problem I can't seem to get past, even with the help of Arch's forums and wiki (and even copying config info I've previously used from Gentoo's forums and wiki): Japanese support. I've got scim working, but fonts are in bad shape. Have a look at my screenshots--the first my Arch virtual machine, the second my Gentoo host: 
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In the Arch install, I've copied many settings from the Gentoo system. /etc/fonts/local.conf and the contents of /etc/fonts/conf.d/ are the same. I've installed lots of fonts, including use cabextract to get Arial Unicode. Also, I've added two lines to /etc/profile about UTF encoding.
Any suggestions? Anyone have Arch looking like my Gentoo above? Thanks!
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#2 2007-11-01 02:03:24
- tardo
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Re: can Japanese on Arch look as good as Japanese on Gentoo?
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#3 2007-11-01 13:21:18
- lang2
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Re: can Japanese on Arch look as good as Japanese on Gentoo?
So the left one is Arch? TOH, I think that is the better looking one.
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#4 2007-11-01 13:42:18
- cu3edweb
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Re: can Japanese on Arch look as good as Japanese on Gentoo?
So the left one is Arch? TOH, I think that is the better looking one.
I going to have to disagree. the gentoo one has more prominent lines.
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#5 2007-11-01 15:49:36
- Gilneas
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Re: can Japanese on Arch look as good as Japanese on Gentoo?
lang2 wrote:So the left one is Arch? TOH, I think that is the better looking one.
I going to have to disagree. the gentoo one has more prominent lines.
The Gentoo one seems to be bigger and anti-aliased. I think the anti-aliasing allows for higher details.
It shouldn't be too hard to turn this on, right?
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#6 2007-11-01 20:03:13
- lang2
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Re: can Japanese on Arch look as good as Japanese on Gentoo?
AA is great for western fonts. For CJK characters that have a much more complex structure, it is actually better to turn AA off. Turning it on will make it look blury and even unrecognizable for small fonts. I think AA for all fonts are turned on by default and one has to make special local.conf to turn it off. So look into /etc/fonts directory and check the configuration files I'd say.
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