chinese in mozilla
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Please excuse my ignorance (I have no knowledge of Chinese whatsoever), but maybe it's just the fonts that are missing? I sometimes get the same problem when trying to look at some Eastern European pages that use a different character set. So installing additional system fonts which are relevant to the language in question (search for "font" and/or "chinese" and/or "CJK" in Synaptic, e.g. in "Add/Remove Software" from the "Preferences" menu) might help the system to render these pages correctly.
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Re: chinese in mozilla
blu3ness,
I followed your instructions but was not able to get the yahei fonts to display in firefox. I downloaded the msyh.ttf and msyhbd.ttf files from the web and copied them to "/usr/share/fonts/vista/" and ran the 3 commands inside "/usr/share/fonts/vista/"; mkfontscale, mkfontdir and fc-cache -fv. Then I copied the contents of the configuration in your post and saved it as "yahei.conf" in "/etc/fonts/conf.d/". Logged out and logged back in. A few characters show up similar to those in your screenshot, but most other characters in firefox is still the old font. Did I miss or misunderstand something? Please advise. Thanks.
Edit: Btw, is Yahei just for simplified chinese or traditional as well?
Edit: After a bit more search on google, I think the Yahei is for displaying simplified chinese characters and Jhenghei is for displaying traditional chinese characters. Can you please tell me how I can install both?
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I followed your instructions but was not able to get the yahei fonts to display in firefox. I downloaded the msyh.ttf and msyhbd.ttf files from the web and copied them to "/usr/share/fonts/vista/" and ran the 3 commands inside "/usr/share/fonts/vista/"; mkfontscale, mkfontdir and fc-cache -fv. Then I copied the contents of the configuration in your post and saved it as "yahei.conf" in "/etc/fonts/conf.d/". Logged out and logged back in. A few characters show up similar to those in your screenshot, but most other characters in firefox is still the old font. Did I miss or misunderstand something? Please advise. Thanks.
Edit: Btw, is Yahei just for simplified chinese or traditional as well?
Edit: After a bit more search on google, I think the Yahei is for displaying simplified chinese characters and Jhenghei is for displaying traditional chinese characters. Can you please tell me how I can install both?
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Ola
Re: chinese in mozilla
Hi everyone,
I've tried to follow the instructions by AllenTang54 but after installation the package manager gave an error message saying that language-pack-gnome-zh and language-pack-zh were not found on the server. Firefox still displays characters as boxes. Any advice would be much appreciated!
Ola
I've tried to follow the instructions by AllenTang54 but after installation the package manager gave an error message saying that language-pack-gnome-zh and language-pack-zh were not found on the server. Firefox still displays characters as boxes. Any advice would be much appreciated!
Ola