Bug 19978 – fontconfig 2.2 doesn't show chinese chars.

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Erwin (RETIRED) 2003-04-25 22:37:36 UTC]

i upgraded to fontconfig 2.2, but gaim can't show chinese chars anymore...
downgrading to fontconfig 2.1-r1 solves the problem..

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Seth Chandler 2003-04-26 16:38:58 UTC]

i wouldn't know how to make an application show chinese characters if i tried... 
 
can you explain to me how i would do this? then we can try and fix it.... 

[Comment 2 Erwin (RETIRED) 2003-04-26 23:33:29 UTC]

try opening these sites:
www.gov.cn (chinese chars)
www.gentoo.gr.jp (japanese chars)

[Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) 2003-04-30 06:39:29 UTC]

both sites work fine for me. Define 'can't show', does it show anything (empty squares or something) ?

[Comment 4 Erwin (RETIRED) 2003-04-30 11:55:11 UTC]

Here are some screenshots:
XFree-4.3.0-r2
freetype-2.1.4

with fontconfig-2.1-r1:
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home2002/AC125972/fontconfig-2.1-r1_www.gentoo.gr.jp.png
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home2002/AC125972/fontconfig-2.1-r1_www.cei.gov.cn.png

with fontconfig-2.2.0-r1:
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home2002/AC125972/fontconfig-2.2.0-r1_www.gentoo.gr.jp.png
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home2002/AC125972/fontconfig-2.2.0-r1_www.cei.gov.cn.png

[Comment 5 foser (RETIRED) 2003-04-30 12:05:26 UTC]

are you positive you have fonts available which should contain these chars (check fc-list)?

[Comment 6 Erwin (RETIRED) 2003-04-30 14:28:42 UTC]

mm.. i don't know what are those fonts called..
so i did:
fc-list > font1 (fontconfig-2.1-r1)
fc-list > font2 (fontconfig-2.2.0-r1)

and
# diff font1 font2
10d9
< Fixed:style=Bold
16d14
< Clean:style=Regular
50d47
< Newspaper:style=Regular
53d49
< ClearlyU:style=Regular
59d54
< ClearlyU Alternate Glyphs:style=Regular
79d73
< Fixed:style=Italic
88d81
< Fixed:style=Regular
-----------------

are those the fonts that i miss?

[Comment 7 foser (RETIRED) 2003-04-30 14:46:31 UTC]

its indeed hard to figure out with the pango fallback mechanism.

do you have any extra fontpacks installed, any of the japanese / chinese sets would probably helpful.

[Comment 8 Erwin (RETIRED) 2003-04-30 21:59:45 UTC]

nope...
the fonts i've ever installed were the bitstream vera fonts only, and what i'm using right now...

is there anything else that i need to check or any info that i can give?
(i don't know anything bout this font thing :/ )

[Comment 9 foser (RETIRED) 2003-05-01 07:32:20 UTC]

what if you add <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir> to your /etc/fonts/fonts.conf list ?

[Comment 10 Erwin (RETIRED) 2003-05-01 09:52:52 UTC]

i added it, and now it works :D

problem's solved.

[Comment 11 foser (RETIRED) 2003-05-01 09:58:17 UTC]

can you attach your current fonts.conf and local.conf ?

[Comment 12 Erwin (RETIRED) 2003-05-01 10:56:43 UTC]

Created attachment 11353 [details]
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf

[Comment 13 Erwin (RETIRED) 2003-05-01 10:57:26 UTC]

Created attachment 11354 [details]
/etc/fonts/local.conf

[Comment 14 foser (RETIRED) 2003-05-18 12:49:25 UTC]

i'm not sure of the initial problem here, the basic fonts should've covered these chars as well.