Bug#296719: xlibs-data: Help needed with CJK issues
[Dropping #255701 which is archived]
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 02:14:57PM +0800, Tetralet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for my misunderstanding.
> This problem was *NOT* fixed in xlibs-data 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.
>
> We find that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/ja_JP.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE and
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/zh_TW.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE are still broken in
> xlibs-data 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.
> The Attached files is updated
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/zh_TW.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE and
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/ja_JP.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE.
My reading of
http://bugzilla.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544
is that upstream moved ISO10646 fonts at the bottom of the file
because few fonts covered most glyphs.
In your comment, you tell that unifont can be used for these languages.
This package is part of Chinese tasks (from tasksel), but not Japanese
ones. The latter contain several other font packages.
Thus I am quite inclined to change zh_TW.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE as requested,
On the other hand, Japanese users will most likely have other fonts
installed, so isn't it better to leave ISO10646 at the bottom of
ja_JP.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE? The patch provided by Akira TAGOH at
http://bugzilla.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544
is the opposite of the one proposed by Tatsuki Sugiura in
http://bugs.debian.org/255701
thus I am quite puzzled. I believe that Mike Fabian does a great job
with CJK for SuSE, and they ship a ja_JP.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE file similar
to Tetralet's one, but maybe they have other fonts installed?
Tatsuki Sugiura, could you please check with other Japanese people what
changes should be made to ja_JP.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE under Debian?
Denis
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