Marc Waeckerlin
Am Dienstag, 19. November 2002 17.13 schrieb Jethro Cramp unter "Re: [m17n] Linux 2 users - 2 different languages environment":
When you do this and enter a chinese desktop are the character displaying properly? I'm going into KDE and I have 'missing' characters; characters are not being displayed properly.
Anyone else have the same problem?
Yes. Change the font (to GNU Unifont) in all applications.
I think the default font does not support simplified chinese, so only the characters identical to traditional chinese are shown correctly, but I did not investigate on this, I'm only guessing.
I also guess it is a font problem. But I think the free Chinese TrueType fonts "AR PL SungtiL GB" and "AR PL KaitiM GB" should work too for simplified Chinese, i.e. it shouldn't be necessary to use "GNU Unifont", you can also use one of these. The "fc-list" command can show you which outline fonts support Chinese: mfabian@magellan:~$ fc-list ":lang=zh-CN:outline=true" AR PL SungtiL GB:style=Regular AR PL KaitiM GB:style=Regular Bitstream Cyberbit:style=Roman mfabian@magellan:~$ fc-list ":lang=zh-TW:outline=true" AR PL KaitiM Big5:style=Regular AR PL Mingti2L Big5:style=Reguler Bitstream Cyberbit:style=Roman mfabian@magellan:~$ ("Bitstream Cyberbit" is a commercial font, the "AR PL" fonts are free and are included in SuSE Linux (package names are ttf-arphic*)).
Do you use modern (simplified) chinese too (zh_CN.UTF-8)? Has anyone the same problem with taiwanese dialect (zh_TW.UTF-8)?
I don't think this has anything to do with the encoding.
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Mike FABIAN