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curmudgeon
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 Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:12 pm Post subject: Lost the ability to display Asian characters |
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I had everything working perfectly for a long time, but after a reboot (and without changing anything except for the regular updates from portage), I now only see empty squares in konsole instead of Asian characters.
I still do see Cyrillic characters correctly, but I can't figure out what might have changed to break this (I did go through all of the utf-8 stuff in the Gentoo documentation again). Does anyone have any ideas? Should I try rebuilding all of the kde (3.5) stuff? Thanks in advance for all suggestions. |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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check that the font you're using supports unicode. check that the unicode USE flag is enabled. try something like urxvt or that asian terminal (kterm?) and see if that works.
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curmudgeon
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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> check that the font you're using supports unicode.
Yes (it all worked before).
> check that the unicode USE flag is enabled.
Yes (it all worked before).
> try something like urxvt or that asian terminal (kterm?) and see if that works.
It should work with konsole (it did before). |
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it's probably in one of the init.d scripts... try starting (if they aren't already) termencoding and whatever else looks promising.
If something works (you may have to kill konsole or even the X server to find out), rc-update add <service> default.
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curmudgeon
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| Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 10:38 am Post subject: |
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I don't have a termencoding init script.
It is so annoying when something was working fine, and then stops working (and I can't figure out why).
I have checked and followed (again) the Gentoo documentation for getting unicode to work, but it doesn't help. |
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Martux
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Maybe you updated xkbcomp? If so, try remerging xorg-server too (just a guess).
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| Login in X, open a console/terminal, the post the output of: |
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mirekm
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If you want to use thai, or khmer (or probably other) fonts, then you should try to select them using:
| Quote: | | eselect fontconfig ... |
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curmudgeon
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> Maybe you updated xkbcomp?
Nope. Last update more than a year ago.
> If so, try remerging xorg-server too (just a guess).
Last update there of 20080613. That could have been what broke it, but I have no idea how to get it back.
> post the output of "locale"
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$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=POSIX
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
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> try to select them using: eselect fontconfig ...
Just for completeness (I didn't change any of this), but I have:
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$ eselect fontconfig list
Available fontconfig .conf files ( * is enabled ):
[1] 10-autohint.conf
[2] 10-no-sub-pixel.conf
[3] 10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf
[4] 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
[5] 10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf
[6] 10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf
[7] 10-unhinted.conf
[8] 20-fix-globaladvance.conf *
[9] 20-unhint-small-vera.conf *
[10] 25-unhint-nonlatin.conf
[11] 30-metric-aliases.conf *
[12] 30-urw-aliases.conf *
[13] 40-nonlatin.conf *
[14] 45-latin.conf *
[15] 49-sansserif.conf *
[16] 50-user.conf *
[17] 51-local.conf *
[18] 60-latin.conf *
[19] 65-fonts-persian.conf *
[20] 65-khmer.conf
[21] 65-nonlatin.conf *
[22] 69-unifont.conf *
[23] 70-no-bitmaps.conf
[24] 70-yes-bitmaps.conf
[25] 80-delicious.conf *
[26] 90-synthetic.conf *
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SeaTiger
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(1) Output of: | Code: | | eix -cIC media-fonts |
(2) Check your koncole profile for fonts setting.
(3) Do you see asian fonts correctly in webpage? |
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curmudgeon
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 10:16 am Post subject: |
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| SeaTiger wrote: | (1) Output of: | Code: | | eix -cIC media-fonts |
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I don't have that, but if you want the list of installed packages under that category:
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media-fonts/encodings-1.0.2
media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.0
media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi-1.0.0
media-fonts/font-alias-1.0.1
media-fonts/font-bh-type1-1.0.0
media-fonts/font-cursor-misc-1.0.0
media-fonts/font-misc-misc-1.0.0
media-fonts/font-util-1.0.1
media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std-8.11
media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10-r3
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| SeaTiger wrote: | | (2) Check your koncole profile for fonts setting. |
in konsolerc:
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defaultfont=Fixed [Misc],16,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
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| SeaTiger wrote: | | (3) Do you see asian fonts correctly in webpage? |
Yes. |
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