Hello,
I recently reinstalled my Debian system (woody mixed with some testing
and unstable packages), and since then I'm having
problems to display japanese characters (I've never had any problem
before the reinstall). Now, some characters can't be displayed (a
strange rectangular box is displayed instead) neither on my gnome 2.8
nor on my Firefox browser.
I have both japanese locales installed (ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP and ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8). I'm using both xfs(version 4.1.0-16woody5) and xfs-xtt (version 1:1.3.0.xf420-4) font servers. I also have all the basic stuff required to have an japanese-environment installed (using the japanese-environment option at tasksel during the system install process). My TrueType fonts come from Windows XP fonts directory (installed them using ttf-commercial package). A weird thing is that if I try to use my Japanese Windows 98SE truetype fonts, no japanese characters are displayed at all, just those wierd rectangular boxes.
I have a feeling that, if you look at a full map of those fonts, they're designed for Shift-JIS, and not ja_JP. Have you checked to make sure
that the extra Japanese fonts are installed (all the Mincho fonts)? Is xfs-xtt managed by defoma? If not, you'll need to add in the fonts by hand.
Do an xlsfonts to verify that X is, in fact, seeing that those fonts exist.
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