Hi.
I (too) have problems with foreign fonts and x.org. I want to see Japanese
characters in x.org-7.3, and I've followed recent discussions about this, so
this is what I tried:
My locale:
bash-3.2$ locale
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
I start X with kdm.
bash-3.2$ fc-list
Luxi Serif:style=Regular
LucidaBright:style=Italic
Utopia:style=Bold Italic
Serto Malankara:style=Regular
Luxi Serif:style=Bold
(and more, but no Japanese).
xlsfonts: a **lot**. Amongst them,
bash-3.2$ xlsfonts | grep ja
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-ja-0-0-100-100-c-0-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-ja-0-0-75-75-c-0-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-ja-13-120-75-75-c-120-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-ja-18-120-100-100-c-180-iso10646-1
I have this in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf:
<!-- Font directory list -->
<dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>
<dir>~/.fonts</dir>
<!--
And, in /usr/share/fonts, I have my directories with fonts.
Ah, and according to another message in the list, I recompiled freetype,
fontconfig and libxft, but with no change.
Now, what is working and what isn't?
kde apps can show kana but not kanji. Just in case you don't know, these are
the 2 kinds of Japanese characters. I guess that qt/kdelibs somehow include
kana but not kanji. Instead of kanji, the famous squares. But in firefox, I
can nearly see everything. I can see kanji in webpages and in gmail, I can
see them in the tabs, but I can't see them in the main window. Sorry, maybe
this has a better name, but I mean next to the logo and 'Mozilla Firefox'.
There, no kanji. Another thing, I can't see the japanese fonts in the font
installer (kde control center) and I can't add them by hand. May be qt/kde
doesn't recognize some format, but I think I've done everything in the book.
Just an extra info: all this seems to work for Russian. I've checked a
random Russian page in google, and everything works fine. And I've checked
debian.org. At the bottom there are lots of different languages. Well,
firefox can show all of them but tamil, and konqueror all but tamil and
arabic. But I can see the kanji in Nihongo (Japanese) and I can see the
kanji in http://www.debian.org/index.ja.html both with konqueror and
firefox.
Any help?
thanks
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