Re: [gentoo-user] utf fonts not working right

[Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU>]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 02:03:50PM -0800, Penguin Lover smallnow squawked:
> http://www.openmobilefree.net/index.php?entry=entry090125-211840
> 
> This page works fine on default fonts of other distros. For me, its got blocks
> for all the asian characters.
> 
> I've been through the gentoo documentation utf guide. I'm using deja-vu font in
> firefox, although it seems to be the same on some other random fonts i've tried.
> 
> The utf-8 guide says to enable cjk use flag but that seems to be deprecated
> since equery says its only used by 4 packages, none of which I have installed.
> 
> Why does gentoo not default to utf-8 support?

The page you list is encoding in GB2312, Simplified Chinese.

Your problem, however, is that you don't have the right fonts. Deja-Vu
fonts do not support east asian scripts. (See their website for more
detail.) 

I suggest media-fonts/unifont, which has all Unicode characters, or
media-fonts/wqy-bitmapfonts or media-fonts/arphicfonts which supports
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ideographs. 

Hope this helps,

W
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