Re: Japanese fonts in X

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 01:56:27PM +0200, Jörg Johannes wrote:
| Hello List
| 
| I have installed a potato box for a friend. She would like to use japanese 
| fonts in GNOME, so I have installed the xfonts-intl-japanese
| and xfonts-intl-japanese-big packages, selected "japanese" on gdm login, but 
| all I get is useless crap-symbols (þþæ????ßþþµµ¢ß?...).
| I have also generated the japanese locales. What else do I have to do to get 
| japanese symols?

For one thing, be sure that hte directory with those fonts is in your
FontPath.  (See the "FontPath" lines in /etc/X11/XF86Config)

-D