chinput is a Chinese input method. I use KDE as my window manager. When I invoke chinput from KDE, it prints the message and quit. I was wondering if the font was really absent in the ebuild. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.# emerge chinput 2.open a konsole in KDE, and type in: chinput & 3. Actual Results: This was the printed message: Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) Basic: Cannot open font -*-*-*-*-*--16-*-*-*-*-*-big5-0 Expected Results: a small bar should appear somewhere on top of the desktop. Where I can switch between Chinese mode and English mode, and input correspondly. Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.2-gentoo-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.2-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/ ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/ http://adelie.polymtl.ca/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dvd encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
so do you have any chinese fonts in X? do: xlsfonts | grep -i big5
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