[Evolution] [OT] chinese fonts and hex representation boxes

[Ron Johnson]

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On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 07:54 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
>=20
> Fonts.
>=20
> The glyph requested by gnome isn't available in the given font, so the
> X server/font server creates a glyph containing the number of the
> missing one.

OK, thanks.

Now to determine which font(s) to install.  Anyone have suggestions?

By looking thru the fonts that Debian has, here's what looks to=20
be a reasonable candidate list.

ttf-arphic-bkai00mp - "AR PL KaitiM Big5" Chinese TrueType font=20
                      by Arphic Technology
ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp - "AR PL Mingti2L Big5" Chinese TrueType font=20
                      by Arphic Technology
ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp - "AR PL SungtiL GB" Chinese TrueType font by=20
                      Arphic Technology
ttf-arphic-gkai00mp - "AR PL KaitiM GB" Chinese TrueType font by=20
                      Arphic Technology
ttfprint - A utility to print Chinese text using TrueType fonts
xfonts-cmex-big5p - Big5+ Chinese Mingti bitmap font (by CMEX &
                      DynaLab) for X11
xfonts-intl-chinese-big - International fonts for X -- Chinese big
xfonts-intl-chinese - International fonts for X -- Chinese


> On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 01:55 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:=20
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > Sorry for asking here, but I figure you may know, since you work
> > so closely with GNOME.
> >=20
> > Chinese characters display as little 2-byte hexadecimal boxes,=20
> > but Japanese characters display properly (as do non-English western
> > fonts).
> >=20
> > Is this a locales problem or a fonts problem?
> >=20
> > Thanks,
> > Ron

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