From: smallnow <smallnow@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] utf fonts not working right
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:12:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <498245EB.50205@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090129233925.GA1171@princeton.edu>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-30 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-03 16:40 [gentoo-user] fonts problem Pat
2009-01-03 18:24 ` Maciej Kazulak
2009-01-29 22:03 ` [gentoo-user] utf fonts not working right smallnow
2009-01-29 22:11 ` Saphirus Sage
2009-01-29 22:50 ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-29 23:23 ` Philip Webb
2009-01-29 23:27 ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-29 23:39 ` Willie Wong
2009-01-30 0:12 ` smallnow [this message]
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