On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 07:54 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
Fonts. The glyph requested by gnome isn't available in the given font, so the X server/font server creates a glyph containing the number of the missing one.
OK, thanks. Now to determine which font(s) to install. Anyone have suggestions? By looking thru the fonts that Debian has, here's what looks to be a reasonable candidate list. ttf-arphic-bkai00mp - "AR PL KaitiM Big5" Chinese TrueType font by Arphic Technology ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp - "AR PL Mingti2L Big5" Chinese TrueType font by Arphic Technology ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp - "AR PL SungtiL GB" Chinese TrueType font by Arphic Technology ttf-arphic-gkai00mp - "AR PL KaitiM GB" Chinese TrueType font by Arphic Technology ttfprint - A utility to print Chinese text using TrueType fonts xfonts-cmex-big5p - Big5+ Chinese Mingti bitmap font (by CMEX & DynaLab) for X11 xfonts-intl-chinese-big - International fonts for X -- Chinese big xfonts-intl-chinese - International fonts for X -- Chinese
On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 01:55 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:Hi, Sorry for asking here, but I figure you may know, since you work so closely with GNOME. Chinese characters display as little 2-byte hexadecimal boxes, but Japanese characters display properly (as do non-English western fonts). Is this a locales problem or a fonts problem? Thanks, Ron
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