Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 80296
Can't see any japanese truetype fonts
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:49:15 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021218 Description of problem: try this: # gnome-font-properties there are no Kochi-fonts. or start mozilla> preferences> fonts> Japanese You'll see "No fonts available". I installed kochi-fonts, but I can't see them. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.# gnome-font-properties 2.there are no Kochi-fonts Actual Results: I can't see any japanese truetype fonts. Expected Results: I CAN see japanese truetype fonts. Additional info: Gnome2 uses truetype fonts, so we can't see any characters. I'm waiting for your next beta (or fixed phoebe) ;)
Did you install in X graphical mode? My text grahpical mode installation crashed near the end before it installed some Japanese packages. Did you see any error messages near the end of the installation?
>Did you install in X graphical mode? yes. >Did you see any error messages near the end of the installation? no. I use nVidia's geforce2mx-64mb and sony multiscan E200. Did you check md5 sums?
Yes, my MD5SUMS were valid. I'm not 100% sure this is a missing or corrupted package issue, I still haven't done a graphical Phoebe install yet. I'm trying that next.
>Yes, my MD5SUMS were valid. OK, when I installed phoebe, I selected "Custom Install". then I selected these packages: gnome desktop kde desktop other window managers(?? I don't remember..) tools for development(gnome-dev, kde-dev, etc) They need about 2.5gb disk usage. I didn't select server packages.
Bug 80314 might be related to this problem, not entirely sure.
We don't have a 'kochi-fonts' package - is this a different package you're talking about? Where does it install the fonts to?
Bill, I wrote: Component: ttfonts-ja so just download "ttfonts-ja-1.2-17.noarch.rpm", then do it: # rpm2cpio ttfonts-ja-1.2-17.noarch.rpm | cpio -id >Where does it install the fonts to? You'll find "kochi-gothic.ttf" and " kochi-mincho.ttf" in /usr/share/fonts/ja/TrueType . I'll delete phoebe soon, I'm waiting for next beta..
Hm, I can see those fonts here, but my box is an upgrade, not a fresh install. Will have to check on a fresh install sometime towards the new year.
Now I can see Japanese TrueType fonts. I did like this: --- # cd /usr/share/fonts/ja/ # rm -rf default* # rm -rf fonts.cache-1 # fc-cache # gnome-font-properties ->select kochi-gothic ->logout -->login --- and you'll be able to see Japanese characters!
Hm, sounds like something odd with how fontconfig handled that package install?
fixed in phoebe2. thanks.