Re: Japanese characters display problem

[Don Werve <donw@agentsix.net>]

Thomas Beresford wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently reinstalled my Debian system (woody mixed with some testing
> and unstable packages), and since then I'm having
> problems to display japanese characters (I've never had any problem
> before the reinstall). Now, some characters can't be displayed (a
> strange rectangular box is displayed instead) neither on my gnome 2.8
> nor on my Firefox browser. 
>
> I have both japanese locales installed (ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP and
> ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8). I'm using both xfs(version 4.1.0-16woody5) and
> xfs-xtt (version 1:1.3.0.xf420-4) font servers. I also have all the
> basic stuff required to have an japanese-environment installed (using
> the japanese-environment option at tasksel during the system install
> process). My TrueType fonts come from Windows XP fonts directory
> (installed them using ttf-commercial package). A weird thing is that if
> I try to use my Japanese Windows 98SE truetype fonts, no japanese
> characters are displayed at all, just those wierd rectangular boxes.

I have a feeling that, if you look at a full map of those fonts, they're 
designed for Shift-JIS, and not ja_JP.  Have you checked to make sure
that the extra Japanese fonts are installed (all the Mincho fonts)?  Is 
xfs-xtt managed by defoma?  If not, you'll need to add in the fonts by hand.

Do an xlsfonts to verify that X is, in fact, seeing that those fonts exist.

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