From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LSgRh-0002U3-4y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:37:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7ECC1E04CF; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:37:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59E15E04CF for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:37:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n0TNbDZ9001527 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:37:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from sep.dynalias.net (fez.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id n0TNbDNu019973 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:37:13 -0500 (EST) Received: by sep.dynalias.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 01BD9459DC9; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:39:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:39:25 -0500 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] utf fonts not working right Message-ID: <20090129233925.GA1171@princeton.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <495F94F2.7010500@xvalheru.org> <492f5c190901031024i65ed3724n36639e450c35874@mail.gmail.com> <498227C6.7020907@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <498227C6.7020907@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: c757c722-9616-4d4a-8001-39ae3c849ce5 X-Archives-Hash: 7d1433bab799ceaa23654db6439591bb 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 -- ...for God's sake look at some real data. That's how Maria Meyer was able to solve this question that eluded Heisenberg and them all, who thought they were all so smart. Thank God the German had him as the head of the nuclear program. Had they actually have someone competent, they might have built the bomb. ~Prof. Will Happer shelling out some Heisenberg dissing. 11-26-02 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 783 days, 22:10