Displaying Asian characters

Xi0N · 2010-12-16 07:57:42

I dont know what did i do in some other computers where i have arch linux installed, but as far as i can remember, i did not have to install any extra thing so that i could see the asian characters correctly, instead of having them replaced by squares.....
In chromium browser is where i see this the most.... so, my question is: What do i have to do to have every possible character displayed correctly in all the system? Do i have to install anything? Enable all the locales?
Thanks!

hksmoothie · 2010-12-16 08:25:18

All I had to do was install the fonts listed under the Chinese section here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts

Xi0N · 2010-12-16 08:58:03

And what to do with the special characters?
Here is a screenshot of what i see in chromium in Arch

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And here is how it should look like (How i see it in chrome under windows 7)

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Last edited by Xi0N (2010-12-16 08:58:39)

hksmoothie · 2010-12-16 09:09:35

I tried a couple of the characters you could not see in Chromium (namely 婞 and 諨), and I was able to see them fine. Which font packages did you install?

Nichollan · 2010-12-16 09:11:18

Chromium handles fonts differently from Firefox. I found that I had to install additional fonts to view Japanese characters even if they came out alright in Firefox.

(I still can't read them though)

Xi0N · 2010-12-16 09:13:56

But im using Chrome in windows and chromium in linux...... tehey should behave more or less the same........ and i say again: In another computer that i have arch on, i see those "squares" as they should look like: as they look in windows.

anonymous_user · 2010-12-17 06:08:41

Do you have the same fonts on both systems? Try installing ttf-fireflysung and see if it helps.

Xi0N · 2010-12-17 06:31:24

Ok, that font fixed the chinese characters: However, i still see that green square in gmail between the two names,.....

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Displaying Asian characters

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