Alex Vong <[email protected]> skribis:
>> diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
>> index 3b6955c..61e3445 100644
>> --- a/doc/guix.texi
>> +++ b/doc/guix.texi
>> @@ -1000,6 +1000,17 @@ to display fonts, you will have to install fonts with
>> Guix as well.
>> Essential font packages include @code{gs-fonts}, @code{font-dejavu}, and
>> @code{font-gnu-freefont-ttf}.
>>
>> +To display text written in Chinese languages, Japanese, or Korean in
>> +graphical applications, consider installing
>> +@code{font-adobe-source-han-sans} or @code{font-wqy-zenhei}. The former
> Perhaps we could change `or` to `and/or`, since some packages only
> work with one font but not another, e.g. Icecat.
font-adobe-source-han-sans:cn works fine for me in IceCat. Maybe you
installed an output other than ‘cn’?
>> +has multiple outputs, one per language family (@pxref{Packages with
>> +Multiple Outputs}). For instance, the following command installs fonts
>> +for Chinese languages:
> There are two sets of Chinese characters, Simplified Chinese and
> Traditional Chinese. cn is Simplified Chinese used in Mainland and tw
> is Traditional Chinese used in Taiwan/HK/Macau. So I think `Chinese
> Language` should be changed to `Simplified Chinese`, what is your
> idea?
I wrote “Chinese languages”, plural, because, IIUC,
font-adobe-source-han-sans:cn provides glyphs for several languages in
the broad Chinese language family.
Does that make sense?
Ludo’.
