I've followed the tutorial[1] to the letter to enable japanese on my gentoo box. [1]http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Enabling_Japanese Whenever a specific japanese font is not explicitly requested, kanjis are extremely ugly and can't be zoomed at all (the web browser's Ctrl-+ zooms everything else, but not the kanjis. This happens both with Firefox and Opera. For example, this happens when opening a UTF-8 page that contains kanjii and has the following CSS: font-family: "Luxi Sans", "Bitstream Vera Sans", "Lucida Grande", "Trebuchet MS", helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; this doesn't happen if the font is explicitly requested, i.e. font-family: "Kochi Mincho"; (which obviously you can't do when browsing the internet). sample pages: [2]http://www.guidetojapanese.org/particles_ex.html [3]http://www.mahou.org/Kanji/RadicalSelect/?376E=on WORKAROUND: re-emerge X.org with USE="-cjk", thus completely removing the default x.org cjk font. This way, the default font for japanese becomes kochi-substitute, which works fine. EXPECTED BEHAVIOUR: either use kochi-substitute as a default font, or something equivalent. Having or not FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/kochi-substitute/" in xorg.conf, or having or not any FontPath entry at all, is unrelevant. # emerge -pv xorg-x11 [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 -3dfx +3dnow +bitmap-fonts -cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx -doc -font-server -insecure-drivers +ipv6 -minimal +mmx +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam +sdk +sse -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) +xprint +xv 0 kB # emerge info Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig digest distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.gg3.net/ ftp://ftp.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/GENTOO http://gentoo.channelx.biz/ http://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Gentoo ftp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Gentoo" LANG="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_ALL="it_IT.UTF-8" LINGUAS="it" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X X509 a52 aac aaca52 aad adns alsa audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdparanoia cdr chroot cjk crypt cscope cups curl dga dts dvb dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode erandom ethereal exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac flash foomaticdb fortran freetype gd gdbm ggi gif gimpprint ginac glut gmp gnutls gpm gtk gtk2 guile hal idn imagemagick imap imlib innodb ipv6 jack java javascript jikes jpeg junit kerberos krb4 lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww live lzo mad matroska mcal md5sum memlimit mhash mikmod ming mmx mmxext mng motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpi mysql ncurses network nls nptl nsplugin nvidia odbc offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam parse-clocks pcre pdflib perl pic plotutils png postgres ppds prelude python qhull qt quicktime readline real recode rtc samba scanner sdl skey slang slp sndfile snmp socks5 speex spell sqlite sse ssl stream svg tcltk tcpd tetex tga theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows xine xml xml2 xosd xprint xv xvid xvmc yaz zlib linguas_it userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS ls /var/db/pkg/media-fonts corefonts-1-r2 intlfonts-1.2.1 sharefonts-0.10-r3 ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10-r3 freefonts-0.10-r2 kochi-substitute-20030809-r3 terminus-font-4.14
Seems to me this is a fontconfig issue, of preference order.
My current Files section in xorg.conf: 4 Section "Files" 5 RgbPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb" 6 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/kochi-substitute/" 7 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled" 8 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" 9 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF" 10 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts" 11 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/freefont" 12 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts" 13 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/terminus" 14 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera" 15 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/unifont" 16 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" 17 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" 18 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz" 19 EndSection As you see, kochi-substitute is now first and it should override everything else, but it doesn't.
The xorg.conf font path order is totally unrelated to any relatively recent apps (i.e., gtk-2 or qt-3). I'm talking about fontconfig the package, which is configured via /etc/fonts/.
Created attachment 79813 [details] fonts.conf local.conf doesn't contain anything. I'm attaching fonts.conf
Thanks for attaching it, but I was suggesting you should change your local configuration if you think the default fonts are ugly.
upgrading to fontconfig-2.3.2 fixes the problem without any need to touch local.conf.
i guess this bug is now closed? i don't even know what resolution to give this.
since the x86 version doesn't work properly, you should consider marking v2.3.2 as stable.
