Re: [Evolution] reading / writing mail with Japanese fonts (iso-2022-jp)...

["Thomas O'Dowd" <tom nooper com>]

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 15:39, Larry Ewing wrote: 
> On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 00:33, Thomas O'Dowd wrote:
> > Hi Larry
> >
> > Could you suggest a font that works for Japanese? I tried everything on
> > my system at this stage as far as I can tell. I managed to get Japanese
> > to display using a font called efont but then normal ascii doesn't
> > display. I have lots of other Japanese fonts installed but nothing else
> > would display Japanese properly with 1.1.90 or earlier betas. This all
> > used to work with 1.0.8 with the normal Helvetica/Courier combination
> > specified in html viewer fonts.
>
> What is the xlfd of the font you were using before, and in particular
> what encoding did you choose?  What locale are you using?

Presume you are talking about the xlfd name of the efont that I
mentioned above that displayed only Japanese but no ascii.

-efont-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1

There was no actual encoding choices on that font except for the default
which was as above.

my normal setting uses

-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1

as for locale stuff I didn't do anything special. I started evolution
like below.

LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucjp LC_MESSAGES=en_US
XMODIFIERS="@im=kinput2" evolution

I also tried using ja_JP.utf8 but on starting I got the following
message 

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C

and no Japanese was displayed at all. Currently I can see subjects/names
in the message list summary pane but not in the preview pane or message
window.

Cheers,

Tom.


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Thomas O'Dowd, CEO, Nooper.com - Mobile Services Inc., Tokyo, Japan
i-mode & FOMA consulting, development, testing: http://nooper.co.jp/