Japanese Kanji not displaying

illuminatedwax · 12-04-2004, 11:34 AM

I'm having trouble with my Debian system (kernel 2.6.6, unstable) displaying Japanese correctly. On all of my programs in X, I can get Japanese to display correctly EXCEPT the kanji do not display correctly. Instead, it shows some hex code box, like a box with the value of the character displayed at each of the four corners:

Code:

 ____
|3  4|
|2  3|
 ~~~~

I've checked my fonts, and I can see all the kanji in all of my Japanese fonts thru xfontsel. What on earth could be the problem?

daihard · 12-04-2004, 11:39 AM

That's odd. So you're saying all the hiragana's and katakana's are displayed correctly but not kanji's? Which desktop environment are you using?

illuminatedwax · 12-04-2004, 11:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by daihard
That's odd. So you're saying all the hiragana's and katakana's are displayed correctly but not kanji's? Which desktop environment are you using?

Using XCFE 4.0.6.
That's exactly it.
I notice this most often in Firefox, but every other X app I've tried it with doesn't work.

daihard · 12-04-2004, 12:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by illuminatedwax
Using XCFE 4.0.6.
That's exactly it.
I notice this most often in Firefox, but every other X app I've tried it with doesn't work.

Which Japanese fonts are you using?

illuminatedwax · 12-04-2004, 12:14 PM

I've got a whole ton: watanabe, kappa, shinonome, etc. How can I tell which one firefox is using? When I go to preferences, it tells me it's using "serif" for Japanese. If I switch my preferences to use "Watanabe Mincho" the problem persists. Perhaps it's using a "bad" Japanese font? Is there any way to tell which file X using for its fonts?

Edit: I should mention that I have so many Japanese fonts because I installed them as an attempted fix to this whole problem.

daihard · 12-04-2004, 12:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by illuminatedwax
I've got a whole ton: watanabe, kappa, shinonome, etc. How can I tell which one firefox is using? When I go to preferences, it tells me it's using "serif" for Japanese. If I switch my preferences to use "Watanabe Mincho" the problem persists. Perhaps it's using a "bad" Japanese font? Is there any way to tell which file X using for its fonts?

It's a good question. It'll probably boil down to how to configure X fonts. I wish I could help you more, but I just don't know where to take the issue from here.

As to Firefox using Japanese fonts... I have no idea how it picks its favourite Japanese fontset, either. I just happen to have one set of JPN fonts (Ricoh) and have never had the problem you described.

illuminatedwax · 12-04-2004, 04:52 PM

SOLVED.

The problem lied with defoma; I guess that's what I get for using unstable. The Japanese fonts were not registered with defoma and therefore not used. Installing a ttf Japanese font package that had the necessary defoma registration did the trick wonderfully.

daihard · 12-04-2004, 09:11 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by illuminatedwax
The problem lied with defoma; I guess that's what I get for using unstable. The Japanese fonts were not registered with defoma and therefore not used. Installing a ttf Japanese font package that had the necessary defoma registration did the trick wonderfully.

Congratulations!