Re: Japanese characters in firefox
On Friday 24 September 2004 21:02, ScruLoose wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to get Firefox set up so it'll display Japanese pages
> properly, but I don't seem to be having any luck.
>
> I'm using Firefox 0.9.3 in Sarge.
>
> Whenever I view a page with Japanese characters in it, they get
> represented as a box with a four-character alphanumeric (hex?) code in
> it. Here's a screencap:
> http://shorty.ca/logs/yahoojp.png
I had the same before.
>
> Now, I've installed a bunch of Japanese fonts as instructed here:
> http://www.mayin.org/aragorn/Japan/linux.html
>
> And they seem to work ... when I open a kterm window and cat a japanese
> text file, it displays fine.
>
> Also, firefox seems to _think_ it's working: The menu under
> View -> Character Encoding shows that it's autodetecting Japanese
> (sometimes Unicode, sometimes Shift_JIS), but still I get the same junk
> displayed. Also, manually selecting Unicode or Shift_JIS makes
> essentially no difference (The alignment moves around a bit, but I still
> get no Japanese characters).
>
> So how do I get this working?
>
>
> Cheers!
Hi ScruLoose,
totoro% apt-cache search ja | grep font
This command will mostly show you some packages available for japanese fonts.
You could pick up one package after the other until you get some results. Only
a few of these package are really necessary, actually, but which ones?
If it can help, here are the japanese font packages I have on my Debian.
Personaly, I'm still using an old FireFox 0.8 and the japanese fonts display
nicely (www.asahi.com for instance) ... after digging into it for a few
hours!
totoro% dpkg -l | grep font (and I removed some irrelevant lines by hand)
ii asiya24-vfont 1-10 Japanese Maru Gothic font in Zeit's Syotai C
ii defoma 0.11.7 Debian Font Manager -- automatic font config
ii dvi2ps-fontdat 1.0.1-2 Font data for dvi2ps-j and dvi2dvi
rc dvi2ps-fontdat 1.0.1-2 Font data of Adobe Japanese fonts (futomin,
ii figfonts-cjk 2.2.1-1 Chinese-Japanese-Korean fonts for figlet
ii fontconfig 2.2.2-2 generic font configuration library
ii gsfonts 8.14-2 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpreter(s)
ii gsfonts-wadala 0.20010409-6 Japanese symbol fonts for the ghostscript in
ii gsfonts-wadala 0.20010409-6 Japanese gothic fonts for the ghostscript in
ii gsfonts-wadala 0.20010409-6 Japanese mincho fonts for the ghostscript in
ii gucharmap 1.2.0-4 Unicode character picker and font browser
ii hbf-kanji48 1.0-2 Japanese Kanji 48x48 bitmap font (JIS X-0208
ii konfont 0.1-7 Public domain japanese fonts for KON2
ii libconsole 0.2.3dbs-50 Shared libraries for Linux console and font
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.2-2 generic font configuration library (shared l
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.2-2 generic font configuration library (developm
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
ii libfreetype6-d 2.1.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, development files
ii libxft-dev 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing library for X (d
ii libxft1 4.3.0-7 FreeType-based font drawing library for X (v
ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing library for X
ii t1lib1 1.3.1-9 Type 1 font rasterizer library - runtime
ii t1utils 1.32-1 A collection of simple Type 1 font manipulat
ii ttf-freefont 20030519-1 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono Truetype fonts
ii ttf-kochi-goth 1.0.20030809-1 Kochi Subst Gothic Japanese TrueType font wi
ii ttf-kochi-minc 1.0.20030809-1 Kochi Subst Mincho Japanese TrueType font wi
ii ttf-mikachan 8.9-1 handwritten Japanese Truetype font
ii xfonts-100dpi 4.3.0-7 100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-100dpi- 4.3.0-7 100 dpi fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 106
ii xfonts-75dpi 4.3.0-7 75 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-75dpi-t 4.3.0-7 75 dpi fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 1064
ii xfonts-a12k12 1-7 12-dot Kanji & ASCII fonts for X
ii xfonts-ayu 1.7+0a-1 Gothic 18/20 dot Japanese and ISO-8859-1 X11
ii xfonts-base 4.3.0-7 standard fonts for X
ii xfonts-base-tr 4.3.0-7 standard fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 10
ii xfonts-intl-ja 1.2.1-2 International fonts for X -- Japanese
ii xfonts-intl-ja 1.2.1-2 International fonts for X -- Japanese big
ii xfonts-kaname 1.1-8 Kaname Cho 12 dot Japanese Kanji, Latin 1 fo
ii xfonts-kappa20 0.396-1 X11 Kappa 20dot Fonts (10x20 8859-1..4/9/10/
ii xfonts-mplus 2.1.4-1 M+ bitmap 10/12 dot Latin/Japanese fonts for
ii xfonts-scalabl 4.3.0-7 scalable fonts for X
ii xfonts-shinono 4-1 Various 12,14,16 dot Japanese Kanji, iso8859
Good luck!
Sylvain.
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