Can't view japanese text

revil · n00b Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 68 Location: Japan

I have a problem viewing japanese text. Any program or webpage that uses it comes up with these weird funky boxes.

here is an example of what I mean: http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/~hendripa/google.ja.jpg

I tried installing the programs that allow you to type japanese (canna, kinput2, etc) and that allows me to write japanese and I can see that just fine.

any ideas on what may be happening?

edit: tried an emerge -u --deep and now everything works. whatever.

asbesto

i have the same problem

netscape/mozilla/firebird can't display japanese, chinese, korean, cyrillic fonts. instead
i obtain strange boxes with numbers inside

this is very annoying

can someone help me ?

tnx
asbesto
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jarealist · Apprentice Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 228

I had the same problem displaying japaness fonts with mozilla. Emerging: media-fonts/kochi-substitute/kochi-substitute-20030809 solved it for me.

yamakawa · Guru Joined: 28 Jul 2003 Posts: 340

They DO. just emerge with USE="cjk" option and emerge some font packages.

asbesto

nothing to do

emerging that font solved nothing for me

i continue seeing that weird boxes :((((
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tomapd · n00b Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 22 Location: Sendai

First of all, you must check your "cjk" and "nls" USE flags and re-compile packeges. "cjk" flag enables 2-byte characters (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) for some programs and it is not "ON" by default.

You also have to install japanese fonts.

then add font paths to XF86Config file.

Finally, choose appropriate fonts in the options dialog of mozilla if wrong fonts are selected.

asbesto

[quote="tomapd"]First of all, you must check your "cjk" and "nls" USE flags and re-compile packeges.
You also have to install japanese fonts.
[list]media-fonts/kochi-substitute
media-fonts/shinome[/list]
then add font paths to XF86Config file.
Finally, choose appropriate fonts in the options dialog of mozilla if wrong fonts are selected.[/quote]

NO WAY !

i spent all day in recompiling, and i still obtain those F@#^$%^ BOXES

i can't manage that - my nervous system is collapsing (as you can see in the foto

))

i don't know

HINT

when i first installed GENTOO, all was working correctly !!! a day later, after i emerged
some packages, well, i obtained those boxes. Maybe there's something in the system
that can interfere with netscape/mozilla/firebird ???

p.s OPERA BROWSER IS OK

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miknight · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2003 6:29 am Post subject:

You have failed to configure Mozilla properly.

Go into Edit->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts.

Now up the top there is a drop down box. Select fonts for "Japanese" (or whichever type you're after). Then you can, for example, set your Proportional font to "Sans Serif", but you must then set your Sans Serif font to a font that has the Japanese characters in it (as explained in previous helpful posts).

You'd find you get better help if you're more polite in your posts to those who are just trying to help you.

EDIT: Spelling.

asbesto · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2003 12:12 pm Post subject: More on this "font" problem

well,

the news today is that opera also have this "box" problem

:(

i think this is not a problem of mozilla font. this because when i first made the
gentoo installation here, from a plain stage 3 system, i emerged netscape, and it
was working perfectly. also for mozilla and firebird.

and i was able to see japanese text WITHOUT selecting any "japanese" font
or whatever in edit---preferences---font.

after an "emerge system" or an "emerge world", i don't remember now, i obtained this
"font" problem, on mozilla, netscape, firebird, and now on OPERA 7.11

so, why now i have to do that setting ? it seem evident that the problem here is
not netscape, or mozilla, or opera, but something in the system that changed some
fonts....

hmmmm ... maybe PANGO ????? i will work on this.

any idea ?
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tomapd · n00b Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 22 Location: Sendai

well, i think it is due to the lack of truetype japanese fonts on your system.
i don't know about OPERA but, mozilla 1.4 or mozilla-firebird 0.6.1 renders fonts with XFT by default. and i think XFT can not render bitmap fonts correctly.
in order to disable XFT rendering, there are two ways. First way is to disable XFT font rendering in compile configuration. you can do it with "moznoxft" USE flag.

second way is to disable the xft font rendering in mozilla's configuration files. Once you start up mozilla, you will find a config file in your home directory.

tomapd · n00b Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 22 Location: Sendai

sorry i was misunderstanding about kochi fonts.
kochi-substitute is what i said kochi-alternative fonts so japanese truetype fonts are already available.

but after emerging "kochi-substitute" fonts, i cannot select kochi fonts too.

asbesto · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2003 7:26 pm Post subject: problem partially solved

well,

i think i solved part of the problem in this brutal way :

1) i emerged ANY japanese font i've found with emerge -s font :)

2) i brutally UNMERGED PANGO :)

and now i can see kanji in netscape, opera and firebird :)

i haven't tried mozilla now, it make a lot recompiling :)))
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erwan · Apprentice Joined: 01 Jun 2003 Posts: 150 Location: Tokyo

Try to unmerge then merge again fontconfig.

You should really stick with gtk+2 application because of im-ja, is much more confortable to input Japanese than in other applications.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=58142&highlight=japanese
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tomapd · n00b Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 22 Location: Sendai

thank you!

pubecon · Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2003 9:46 pm Post subject: