Re: Japanese fonts
On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 13:04, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 11:12:06 -0400, David Clymer <david@zettazebra.com> wrote:
> > I'm working on a web page for my the karate dojo that I train at, and
> > would like to type japanese characters in different fonts. I've
> > downloaded and installed a bunch of different japanese TT fonts, but
> > everything I type using the japanese input method uses only a plain
> > "Arial"-ish kind of font. Does anyone know how to setup/select fonts for
> > non-roman characters?
> >
> > I'm using uim-anthy as my input method. The application I am attempting
> > to do this in is gimp 2.0.
> >
> > Any help/hints would be greatly appreciated.
> >
>
> You said any hints, so i should try to open gnome-character-map (or
> equivalent utility) and do a copy&paste to the gimp text editor (i've
> tried here and even if a little tedious, works)...
Yeah, that is a bit tedious. I was doing an even more tedious version of
that: looking up the kanji in an online english <-> japanese kanji
dictionary, copy paste. You'd think I would have thought of the gnome
charmap thing myself.
The problem, it seems is that the fonts I installed didnt have glyphs
for the characters I was trying to use, or they werent mapped to the
right unicode characters but to the normal latin character set instead,
replacing the normal a,b,c,etc with japanese characters.
I've found a few fonts with the necessary glyphs now and everything is
working.
thanks for the suggestion.
-davidc
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