At Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:29:43 -0500, linux@hiddenfortress.net wrote:

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I think this is incorrect. The fonts work during the installation screen (where you get a list of installation languages). They just don't work properly afterwards.

During the installation, the GNU Unicode bitmap font is used for Japanese. This font is also available in the installed system. You can use that if you want, but you will probably prefer to use scalable fonts for your webbrowser.

So if I chose any non-Latin installation and locale with Suse Personal, I'd end up with a desktop that only showed little boxes and no scalable fonts? That makes no sense to me. What is Suse smoking?

with the bundled CDs of the personal edition, the scalable japanese fonts won't be displayed. it's beyond the target of this product -- at least, the sales & marketing guys think so. i do know it's confusing, and i personally hope this edition will be no longer sold in the future. but it's also true that such a complain is pretty rare. most of people don't care whether the japanese fonts are shown or not, AFAIK. (and in japan, the personal edition is sold with the warning that it doesn't support japanese properly, for avoiding the misunderstanding.) ok, stop flaming but look into a more constructive thing. with your system, it MUST be possible to show scalable asian fonts, if you installed some external packages from net. try running /sbin/SuSEconfig as root once, if you didn't do it yet. otherwise, the newly installed truetype fonts won't be recognized. (note that if you installed it via yast, yast will run this script automatically.) and, make sure that mozilla (or whatever) uses the correct fonts, namely, "Sans" and "Sans Serif". they include both latin and asian letters, which match with the style. finally, check the detected coding system of the page, too. ciao, Takashi