Re: Recent upgrade in Lenny botched CJK fonts
At Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:20:20 +0100,
Josselin Mouette wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Le lundi 08 décembre 2008 à 07:57 +0900, Adam C Powell IV a écrit :
> > On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 23:07 +0100, Thomas PARIS wrote:
> > > On Mon Dec 8 at 05:24 (+0900), Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > > > Then three days ago, I did an aptitude upgrade, and Evolution, Iceweasel
> > > > and Galeon stopped showing Japanese, Korean and Chinese fonts!
> > > [snip]
> > > > Has anyone here had any similar problems? Do you know what my problem
> > > > might be?
> > >
> > > I think we might have the same problem. I'm running unstable and many
> > > non-ascii characters are not displayed anymore (instead, the character
> > > code is shown, as if the non-ascii fonts were missing, which they're
> > > not).
> >
> > Yes, sounds like the same problem.
>
> > Thanks. I just found 2.6.0-1 on snapshot.debian.net and downgraded to
> > it (fontconfig, fontconfig-config, libfontconfig1(-dev)), but that
> > didn't improve things, even after a gdm restart. Perhaps something
> > changed in the configuration?
>
> Yes, the only thing that changed between 2.6.0-1 and 2.6.0-3 is the
> configuration: bitmap fonts are now entirely disabled by default - as
> they should have always been.
>
> If some CJK fonts are missing on your system, you should simply install
> the corresponding ttf-* font packages.
Do we install ttf Japanese-capable fonts by default for Lenny ? We
might happen to have bitmap fonts only. We might want to fix this.
regards,
junichi
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