Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: smallnow <smallnow@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] utf fonts not working right
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:20:32
Message-Id: 498245EB.50205@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] utf fonts not working right by Willie Wong
1 Willie Wong wrote:
2 > The page you list is encoding in GB2312, Simplified Chinese.
3 >
4 > Your problem, however, is that you don't have the right fonts. Deja-Vu
5 > fonts do not support east asian scripts. (See their website for more
6 > detail.)
7 >
8 > I suggest media-fonts/unifont, which has all Unicode characters, or
9 > media-fonts/wqy-bitmapfonts or media-fonts/arphicfonts which supports
10 > Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ideographs.
11 >
12 > Hope this helps,
13 >
14 > W
15
16 SOLVED!
17 Thanks. I actually had everything already setup the same way everyone else said
18 except you. I added those fonts, added them to my xorg.conf fonthpaths and
19 restarted X and it works.
20
21 - Ian