Hello Armin, The version listed on ken's site can be downloaded as a source rpm from:
http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/SRPMS/core/release/fonts-ttf-chinese-opendesktop-1.6.100-4.mga4.src.rpm Regards, Christopher. On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 23:37 +0200, Armin K. wrote: > On 05/19/2014 10:26 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 08:40:04PM +0200, Armin K. wrote: > >> As the title says. > >> > >> I recall they being displayed correctly on windows version of Firefox. I > >> think that I may be missing something, but what? > >> > >> Ken, you are the expert on these things. What could I be missing? Maybe > >> font package or locale? I only have en_US{,.UTF-8} and bs_BA{,.UTF-8} > >> locales generated and following font packages: > >> > > > > The locale should not matter, if it is UTF-8. > > > >> cantarell-fonts-0.0.15.tar.xz > >> fonts-dejavu-2.34.tar.xz > >> fonts-freefont-20120503.tar.xz > >> fonts-gentiumbasic-1.1.tar.xz > >> fonts-gentiumplus-1.508.tar.xz > >> fonts-liberation-2.00.1.tar.xz > >> > >> Any hints are welcome. > >> > > I don't know about the gentium fonts, but the others are definitely > > missing CJK ideograms. When I look at the 'Han' section of > > gucharmap I can see that most of the glyphs are rendered, but in one > > of the AR fonts - uming in the case of this machine, because I got > > fed up with having too many fonts to choose from in 'writer'. > > > > In BLFS, the last page of chapter 24 "Xorg-7.7 Testing and > > Configuration" has some information under "Xft Font Protocol". > > There are direct links to Firefly and Arphic (both old, we've listed > > them since Alexander was our expert) but when I suggested reworking > > the detail of that page there was a lack of interest from people who > > can read Chinese variants, and I don't have detailed knowledge of > > the variations. So, there is just a link "Rendered examples of many > > of the above fonts can be found at this font analysis site." - that > > is mine, and it has rather more detail now. > > > > So, go to > > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/zarniwhoop/ttf-font-analysis/ttf-otf-notes.html#examples > > > > and start by following the example-pdfs link - I recommend you open > > the CJK-examples{,-2} PDF files and see which font you prefer. > > There is also a separate PDF for each font. If the package name is > > not clear, look for the text file in ttf-otf-coverage which shows > > the ranges of the glyphs in the font and has the package name in its > > first few lines. One or two of these need a little action for > > fontconfig - details in the PDFs for the affected fonts. > > > > For general coverage of Chinese, I think any of the CJK fonts will > > render most, if not all, of everything you are likely to encounter > > on the web. > > > > ĸen > > > > Thanks for the response. I have found opendesktop-fonts-1.4.2 and > installed them and now firefox properly displays chinese characters. I > did notice that your pdf contained a note about > "opendesktop-fonts-1.6.100" but I couldn't find that version anywhere. > > -- > Note: My last name is not Krejzi. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
