Linux + Firefox + CJK chars

William Park opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Mon Jun 6 05:59:31 UTC 2005


On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:51:07PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> [m450][root][~]find /usr/share/fonts -name 'hangl*'
> /usr/share/fonts/misc/hanglm16.pcf.gz
> /usr/share/fonts/misc/hanglm24.pcf.gz
> /usr/share/fonts/misc/hanglg16.pcf.gz

Yup, that's Daewoo fonts, included in official XFree86/Xorg.

> [m450][waltdnes][~] ll /usr/share/fonts/TTF
> total 1561
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   872 May 26 07:58 .
> drwxr-xr-x  12 root root   328 Mar 22 06:15 ..
> -r--r--r--   1 root root 65932 May 26 07:55 Vera.ttf
...
> -r--r--r--   1 root root 74076 May 26 07:55 luximb.ttf
...

Thanks Walter.  I have these.  They are open sourced by Bitstream, and
they don't have non-Latin stuffs.  Slackware is not that behind other
distro, after all.

I figured out that Firefox only does TTF/Type1, and goes through
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf.  Not /etc/X11/XF86Config.  I was confused,
because Netscape-7.1 and Konqueror were picking up Daewoo fonts, but not
Firefox.  Conversely, Firefox was picking up Cyberbit font, but not
Netscape-7.1 or Konqueror.

By the way, I like Cyberbit... one file to download and install.  But,
for reference, other Korean fonts can be found at
    http://kldp.net/projects/unfonts/
which are the same fonts used in HLaTeX (Korean LaTeX).


Next topic to nail down is inputting Korean chars through Firefox or
Thunderbird.  I'll post when I find out.  I can do it through
Vim/Mutt/Xterm, but that doesn't count (as we all know).

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