Re: Debian default font for Chinese display is not complete

Dear William,

Thanks for your email. Since I have discovered which font had those=20
missing characters by just mere chance. It seems to be AR PL kaitiM and=20
all the AR PL fonts I have in fact. I have no idea how KDE is assigning=20
this font by default to display Chinese as  I didn't see its name=20
anywhere (Didn't check text configuration file though).

What do you mean by not free for Cyberbit? I got them off the bitstream=20
website and it was for free download I believe? What are the restrictions=
?

Anyway thanks for the help.

Fred

William Poetra Yoga H wrote:

>--- Frederic Muller <fred-GQxX53Lv/[email protected]> wrote:
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>>Hi guys!
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>Hi :) Sorry I'm a bit late; I didn't check my Yahoo! inbox...
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>>I am currently using Debian in English but also need to display (and=20
>>type eventually) Chinese. I followed some Internet resource to do that=20
>>and it works almost well. The default font used by the system to do tha=
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>>is missing some Chinese characters. From all my KDE font settings it=20
>>says it is Bitstream Vera, though after checking with Font viewer=20
>>Bitsream Vera seems to have no Chinese character at all.
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>I'm using Slackware in English, with LC_* set to "C" except for LC_CTYPE=
, which
>is set to zh_CN.gb2312 (I know I should move on to GBK someday). I don't=
 use
>KDE (I use XFCE), but the settings should be quite common...
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>>So I have in fact a few font related questions:
>>- how do I find out which font is really being used?
>>- How do you guys handle the problem?
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>>- How in open office when opening documents written on wndows do you ge=
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>>the right font selection to display all the Chinese characters without=20
>>having to do a Select all - replace?
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>I'm using the ukai and uming fonts from CJKUnifonts:
>http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fCJKUnifonts
>I think they're good, but I haven't tried wqy yet.
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>For the ugly English characters problem, please take a look at my blog a=
nd
>scroll down (or search for "pango"):
>http://wpyh.blogs.friendster.com/my_blog/
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>I personally don't recommend SimSun and Cyberbit fonts, since they are n=
ot
>free, to the best of my knowledge. For the OpenOffice.org problem, I set=
 font
>replacements (I use OOo 1.1.5, so for 2.0 it might be a bit different). =
In
>Tools->Options, you can set font replacements under the heading "Fonts".=
 I
>usually set "=CB=CE=CC=E5" and "=D0=C2=CB=CE" to "AR PL Shanheisun Uni" =
(that's uming). Then
>for compatibility with MSO users you can use =D0=C2=CB=CE and it will ap=
pear as uming
>in your document.
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>Hope this helps :)
>
>
>William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno
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