[solved]Fcitx and Sans font

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tai · Post by **tai** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:22 am

hi all,

I recently installed fcitx because i wanted to type chinese under gentoo.
Upon reading some docs, i saw that i have to use these env vars:

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XMODIFIERS="@im=fcitx"
XIM=fcitx
XIM_PROGRAM=fcitx

along with this:

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LC_CTYPE="zh_CN"

to get fcitx working.

But whenever i use LC_CTYPE="zh_CN" my system fonts (sans and monospace) are messed up and look really ugly. After removing this and update my env variables everything is fine except that fcitx can't type.
Is there a workaround that i can somehow keep LC_CTYPE and still get my old font?

Here are all my fonts, are any unnecessary/some more to be added?

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Section "Files"

        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/util"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/encodings"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/freefont"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/default"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/arphicfonts"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/wqy-bitmapfont"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera"

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Thanks a lot,

Tai

galilette · Post by **galilette** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:53 am

fcitx should work with both zh_CN.* and en_US.UTF8. The easiest way is set LC_CTYPE to be en_US.UTF8, say in your ~/.xinitrc file.

If for some reason that doesn't work, there's a more tedious way. Prepend "LC_CTYPE=zh_CN" every time you start fcitx AND the applications to which you want to input Chinese. LC_CTYPE is then made local and won't affect others. But maybe these individual app's will turn up ugly.

Of course you can tune your fontconfig settings instead.

tai · Post by **tai** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:14 pm

Neither of those worked. For the second one, exporting LC_CTYPE="zh_CN" after i start applications doesnt work..fcitx won't let me type.
How would i change my font configs? I mean, i want to use Sans and monospace.

tai · Post by **tai** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 1:15 am

I solved the problem by changing my sans font to Bitstream Vera Sans.