[SOLVED] How to change the default Japanese fonts?

xyzone · 09-14-2014, 12:12 AM

Editing /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/65-nonlatin.conf and putting an entry for the custom font at the very top seems to do something. Only the kana changes but the kanji is left the same. What am I missing?

jessetaylor84 · 09-14-2014, 12:52 AM

Which Linux distribution are you using? Here is a guide for configuring it on Ubuntu: http://askubuntu.com/questions/42771...-japanese-font ... but not sure if that's going to work for you.

xyzone · 09-14-2014, 09:35 PM

Thanks. I'm on Debian, and this worked with some edits. The Ubuntu-intended files seem outdated in that some things gave warnings about incompatibilities.

New Ubuntu versions don't need this fix anymore.

This is what I ended up putting in /etc/fonts/conf.d/69-language-selector-ja-jp.conf

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
    <!-- Japanese (ja) -->
    <match target="pattern">
        <test qual="any" name="family">
            <string>serif</string>
        </test>
        <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
            <string>DejaVu Serif</string>
            <string>IPA P明朝</string>
            <string>IPA モナー P明朝</string>
            <string>Takao P明朝</string>
            <string>梅P明朝</string>
            <string>さざなみ明朝</string>
            <string>東風明朝</string>
        </edit>
    </match>

    <match target="pattern">
        <test qual="any" name="family">
            <string>sans-serif</string>
        </test>
        <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
            <string>DejaVu Sans</string>
            <string>HG丸ｺﾞｼｯｸM-PRO</string>
            <string>IPA Pゴシック</string>
            <string>IPA モナー Pゴシック</string>
            <string>Takao Pゴシック</string>
            <string>UmePlus P Gothic</string>
            <string>梅Pゴシック</string>
            <string>VL Pゴシック</string>
            <string>さざなみゴシック</string>
            <string>東風ゴシック</string>
        </edit>
    </match>

    <match target="pattern">
        <test qual="any" name="family">
            <string>monospace</string>
        </test>
        <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
            <string>DejaVu Sans Mono</string>
            <string>IPAゴシック</string>
            <string>IPA モナー ゴシック</string>
            <string>Takaoゴシック</string>
            <string>UmePlus Gothic</string>
            <string>梅ゴシック</string>
            <string>VL ゴシック</string>
            <string>さざなみゴシック</string>
            <string>東風ゴシック</string>
        </edit>
    </match>

    <match target="pattern">
        <test qual="any" name="family">
            <string>Ryumin</string>
        </test>
        <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
            <string>IPA P明朝</string>
            <string>IPA モナー P明朝</string>
            <string>Takao P明朝</string>
            <string>梅P明朝</string>
            <string>さざなみ明朝</string>
            <string>東風明朝</string>
        </edit>
    </match>

    <match target="pattern">
        <test qual="any" name="family">
            <string>GothicBBB</string>
        </test>
        <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
	    <string>HG丸ｺﾞｼｯｸM-PRO</string>
            <string>IPA Pゴシック</string>
            <string>IPA モナー Pゴシック</string>
            <string>Takao Pゴシック</string>
            <string>UmePlus P Gothic</string>
            <string>梅Pゴシック</string>
            <string>VL Pゴシック</string>
            <string>さざなみ ゴシック</string>
            <string>東風ゴシック</string>
        </edit>
    </match>
    <!-- Japanese (ja) ends -->

Notice that I have added two custom fonts for serif and sans-serif. It's the HG fonts.

fhleung · 09-19-2014, 01:18 PM

Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf8" />