how to properly install a big5 font?

j-kidd · Apprentice Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 213

Let use mingliu.ttf from windows as the example... may I know what is the correct steps to install it? (for QT, GTK, etc..)

Currently, I can use the font just fine in QT applications, but fail to read any chinese character in GTK (xmms, ed2k gtk, lmule

), Java (limewire, ed2k java

), and WINE applications (emule plus, winmx

).

I am using xfree 4.3
Thanks!

liquidx · Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 1:32 pm Post subject:

you can try the following packages for chinese fonts:

* zh-kcfonts
* arphicfonts
* twmoefonts

i am drafting a howto on chinese support in gentoo, you might want to take a quick look at it, however it is far from complete right now

http://cvs.gentoo.org/~liquidx/chinese.html

liquidx · Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 2:03 pm Post subject:

oh and also, you might want to check out www.gentoo.org.tw and my www.linuxsir.org for some chinese related forums.

as far as i know, to view chinese in gnome/gtk, you need to set your LANG to a chinese character set in your .profile, or open the applications in that language: eg.

LANG="zh_TW.Big5" gedit

j-kidd · Apprentice Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 213

Thanks, setting LANG solved the problem

(I set LANG to english and LC_CTYPE to big5 as I don't want the interface to be in chinese)

Another question... when putting these few lines in .xinitrc, X will freeze whenever I move or resize a QT application

StuBear · Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 12:35 am Post subject:

Not sure whether it applies here or not, but for Japanese support to work correctly for me with gnome and qt apps I need to change LC_CTYPE to LC_ALL, otherwise the app hanges or segfaults.

Hope this is helpfull

j-kidd · Apprentice Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 213

Thanks for the suggestion. Apparently this is an almost one year old bug in kde

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kwin&w=2&r=1&s=xcin&q=b