Linux + Firefox + CJK chars

[William Park]

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 08:59:08AM -0400, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> William Park wrote:
> > 
> > In <alt.os.linux.slackware> newsgroup, I was pointed to something called
> > Cyberbit TTF font.  
> 
> I'd be a bit careful with Cyberbit. I know machines are a lot beefier
> than they used to be, but having a single TTF of 23MB in memory isn't
> going to do anyting for your font rendering speed. Proofing a page in
> Cyberbit once locked up my Sun Ultra 10 for five minutes.

Hmmm, this may explain why my mouse seems to hang intermittently.

> 
> > To those of you whose Firefox works out of box, can you check your
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/, and see if it contains anything other
> > than 'Vera*' and 'luxi*'?
> 
> The output from 'xset q' might be more useful, as would looking through
> /etc/fonts/local.conf. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ looks the same to
> me, too, but I also have /usr/share/fonts/corefonts (MS Core Fonts;
> which don't have CJKV, being WGL4) and /usr/share/fonts/ttf-gentium (SIL
> Gentium, an attempt to do a true and complete Unicode font for free).

'xset q' will list FontPath from your /etc/X11/XF86Config (or
xorg.conf).  I'm more interested in stuffs in there, particularly stuffs
that I don't have. :-)

Font is one area that Slackware is lagging behind other distros.  Up
until now, this has been irrelevant, because anything Korean would be
email.  And, I usually do email using Mutt, Vim, Hanterm (Korean Xterm),
and maybe Lynx.  They are all 8-bit clean, so they can handle Korean
email.

But, I have this particular need of Firefox + Korean chars.  My
procrastination has come back to bite me. :-)

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