Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 14:29:46 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely9.cicely.de> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: Rob Lahaye <lahaye@users.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: How to make Mozilla display Korean (or CJK-type) characters? Message-ID: <20030512122341.GK3789@cicely9.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <1052671677.6810.16.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 12:47:57PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 11:28, Rob Lahaye wrote: > > Bernd Walter wrote: > > > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 12:00:49PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: > > > > > >>I seem to remember that Mozilla somehow out-of-the-box could display > > >>non-roman charactersets, such as Korean. But Mozilla doesn't seem > > >>to do that anymore. What should I do ? > > >> > > >>I have installed the Korean johabfonts-port, which mentions something > > >>about Mozilla in its pkg-descr file. I installed it and included the > > >>directory in my fonts for X11; to no avail. > > >> > > >>In Mozilla I can select as the character set "Korean(JOHAB)", but when I > > >>check it next time, it is again on "Korean(EUC-KR)". > > >> > > >>Non-roman characters are displayed as squares that seem to have four tiny > > >>roman characters in them. > > >> > > >>Is this a bug in Mozilla, or is my fonts setup buggy, or is this a > > >>more fundamental FreeBSD issue? > > > > > > > > > I had the same problem. > > > Compile the mozilla port with -DWITHOUT_XFT=yes. > > > > Indeed that did it! > > Can you give me a site using the characters in question? I have no > problem displaying non-Roman (Cyrillic in this case) characters, as well > as Japanese Kanji in Mozilla _with_ Xft support enabled. In fact, > http://www.kr.freebsd.org/ looks fine to me, too with Xft. I tested with http://freebsd.jp.freebsd.org The characters were displayed as a square with 4 hex digits in them I guess the number were Unicode or something like this. > With all font issues in Mozilla, you must have fontconfig, freetype2, > and Xft ports up-to-date. If you add new fonts, make sure you add them fontconfig-2.1_2 freetype2-2.0.9 IIRC these were recent when I first noticed this problem. > to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, ~/.fonts, or, if another location, make > sure you add that location to /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/local.conf per the > instructions at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html#ANTIALIAS Sound like much to read - and given that I run XFree86-4.2.0_1,1 on my display. Are you expect this might a problem on the X-server? I had not thought about this, because no-roman fonts always worked until then. > Then run fc-cache -f as root. Well - this is the server side for shure. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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