[gentoo-user] fonts problem

[gentoo-user] fonts problem

[Pat]

Hello,

I'm trying to install new system based on amd64 and there are the font
problems during the installation.
1) the skype menus are blank
2) Eterm giving this error message:
Eterm:  Error:  Unable to load font
"-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-56-iso8859-1".
Falling back on "fixed"
Eterm:  Error:  Unable to load font
"-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1".  Falling
back on "k14"
Eterm:  FATAL:  Couldn't load the fallback font either.  Giving up.

Can someone help?

Thanks a lot

	Pat

P.S. kernel 2.6.26-gentoo-r4, architecture amd64, X.org 7.4 (unmasked by
~amd64)

Re: [gentoo-user] fonts problem

[Maciej Kazulak]

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Sure you installed all the necessary font packages? Also make sure X knows
about them, see /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

2009/1/3 Pat <pat@xvalheru.org>

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install new system based on amd64 and there are the font
> problems during the installation.
> 1) the skype menus are blank
> 2) Eterm giving this error message:
> Eterm:  Error:  Unable to load font
> "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-56-iso8859-1".
> Falling back on "fixed"
> Eterm:  Error:  Unable to load font
> "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1".  Falling
> back on "k14"
> Eterm:  FATAL:  Couldn't load the fallback font either.  Giving up.
>
> Can someone help?
>
> Thanks a lot
>
>        Pat
>
> P.S. kernel 2.6.26-gentoo-r4, architecture amd64, X.org 7.4 (unmasked by
> ~amd64)
>
>

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[gentoo-user] utf fonts not working right

[smallnow]

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?

- Ian

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

[Saphirus Sage]

smallnow wrote:
> 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?
>
> - Ian
>
>
>   
Have a look into /etc/locale.gen and uncomment the language support you
need.

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

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:03 PM, smallnow <smallnow@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
> - Ian

Works for me... what is your character encoding set to in firefox?
(View -> Character Encoding)... it comes up as GB2312 on mine and
everything looks good to me.

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

[Philip Webb]

090129 Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:03 PM, smallnow <smallnow@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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'm using deja-vu font in firefox,

My default font is New Century Schoolbook.

>> The utf-8 guide says to enable cjk use flag

Not enabled here.  In  /etc/make.conf , I have

  USE="-* apm bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cdr crypt cups dbus dri foomaticdb
     gcj gdbm gif gnutls gpm gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imlib
     java javascript jpeg kde lcms libwww lm_sensors mime motif mpeg
     multilib ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia opengl
     pcre pdf perl plotutils png pop python qt3 readline
     scanner session slang ssl
     threads tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts
     unicode usb win32codecs X xml xorg xv zlib"

In  /etc/locale.gen , I have

  en_US ISO-8859-1
  en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

> what is your character encoding set to (View -> Character Encoding) ?
> it comes up as GB2312 on mine and everything looks good to me.

Same here.  I'm using Firefox 3.0.5 .

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

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> wrote:
> 090129 Paul Hartman wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:03 PM, smallnow <smallnow@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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'm using deja-vu font in firefox,
>
> My default font is New Century Schoolbook.
>
>>> The utf-8 guide says to enable cjk use flag
>
> Not enabled here.  In  /etc/make.conf , I have
>
>  USE="-* apm bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cdr crypt cups dbus dri foomaticdb
>     gcj gdbm gif gnutls gpm gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imlib
>     java javascript jpeg kde lcms libwww lm_sensors mime motif mpeg
>     multilib ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia opengl
>     pcre pdf perl plotutils png pop python qt3 readline
>     scanner session slang ssl
>     threads tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts
>     unicode usb win32codecs X xml xorg xv zlib"
>
> In  /etc/locale.gen , I have
>
>  en_US ISO-8859-1
>  en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
>
>> what is your character encoding set to (View -> Character Encoding) ?
>> it comes up as GB2312 on mine and everything looks good to me.
>
> Same here.  I'm using Firefox 3.0.5 .

I'm using generic font families in Firefox instead of specific fonts
for Simplified Chinese.

Proportional font: Sans-serif
Serif: Serif
Sans-serif: Sans-serif
Monospace: monospace

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

[Willie Wong]

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

[smallnow]

Willie Wong wrote:
> 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

SOLVED!
Thanks. I actually had everything already setup the same way everyone else said
except you. I added those fonts, added them to my xorg.conf fonthpaths and
restarted X and it works.

- Ian