Re: Firefox's secret Chinese font
- From: Sion Arrowsmith <siona@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 25 Feb 2008 14:43:10 +0000 (GMT)
Neil Ellwood <cral.elllwood2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:10:17 +0000, Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
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The only explanation I can come to for this is that Firefox has a secret
font that is uses for displaying Chinese and doesn't share with the rest
of the system. Does anybody have any ideas about (a) whether this is
true (b) how I locate this font and persuade, say, OpenOffice to use it
or (c) whether I should just abandon this approach and install some
dedicated fonts for the purpose?
Have a look in synaptic and see if the relevant languages are loaded in
iceweasel.
They're not, but that further deepens the mystery of why it can
display a full range of Chinese characters, but other applications
can't.
I've not got to the bottom of this, but have solved my immediate needs
by installing a bunch of Chinese bitmap fonts (xfonts-intl-chinese)
and TrueType support (ttf2pt1-chinese), and one or other of those (a)
changed Firefox's Chinese font to one of the new ones, permitting
printing and (b) allows OpenOffice to display the full range of
characters.
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