non-English fonts in Firefox

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 01:56:31PM -0400, William Park wrote:
> How do you configure Firefox to display non-English fonts?  I'm
> interested in Korean fonts, but the info is also relevant for Chinese or
> Japanese fonts.
> 
>     1.  I have English Firefox.  When displaying Korean characters in
> 	webpage, it simply displays square box with hex numbers.  When I go
> 	to
> 	    Edit | Preferences | Fonts&Colors | Korean
> 	I'm given options of 'serif', 'san-serif', etc. which are the same
> 	selection for 'Western' case.
> 
> 	Netscape-7.1 can display Korean characters.  And, I'm given proper
> 	font selection (ie. daewoo-...) when I go under 'Fonts&Colors'
> 	menus.
> 
>     2.  I installed Korean language version of Firefox.  Here, all menus
> 	are in Korean.  But, all I see is, again, square boxes with hex
> 	numbers.
>     
> Is there anyone here who has successfully configured Firefox to work
> with Chinese/Japanese/Korean language?  I don't think you need special
> language version just to see the characters on screen.  For inputing,
> you probably need a language version.

It works here (on debian sarge) but I do have both unifont and
msttcorefonts installed, both of which at least help many applications
with getting nice fonts in multiple languages.  I think x-ttcidfont-conf
also hepls to allow X to use tt fonts.

www.sony.co.jp at least looks like japaneese to me in firefox 1.0.4.

Lennart Sorensen
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