Bug 72365 – emerge intlfonts doesn't help with Japanese web pages

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Timothy Miller 2004-11-24 09:51:23 UTC]

The "media-fonts/intlfonts" claims to supply fonts for Japanese (kana and kanji), but after emerging it (and rebooting), still neither Mozilla nor Konqueror can display Japanese web pages.

Furthermore, after emerging, many packages spit out instructions that must be followed manually.  This package produced no such instructions, so if there is an additional step, I cannot determine what it is.

NOTE:  I am LEARNING Japanese.  My primary language is English, but I would like to be able to view pages that contain Japanese characters.

I have marked this bug as "major" because I am completely unable to view Japanese web pages under Gentoo Linux.  It is very important to me to be able to do this, and I prefer not to have to find a Windows box and use IE instead.  If "major" is not appropriate, administrators should feel free to alter it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to view a Japanese web page
2. emerge intlfonts and reboot
3. Try to view a Japanese web page

Actual Results:  
Still can't view Japanese characters. 

Expected Results:  
Either (a) made necessary configuration changes so that X11 and/or 
applications can find Japanese fonts, or (b) provide instructions explaining 
the necessary manual configuration changes. 

Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 
2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz 
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) 
[enabled] 
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse 
-fprefetch-loop-arrays -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /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="-O3 -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse 
-fprefetch-loop-arrays -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc distlocks sandbox" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.binarycompass.org http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr 
http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/" 
MAKEOPTS="-j4" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="X Xaw3d aalib acpi aim alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi 
bash-completionberkdb bitmap-fonts bmp bonobo bzlib calendar cdr crypt cups 
dga dio directfb divx4linux doc emacs emacs-w3 encode esd evo f77 f90 fbcon 
foomaticdb fortran ftpgb gcj gd gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml icq 
imagemagick imlib innodb jabber java jpeg kde ldap lesstif libg++ libgda 
libwww mad mikmod mime mmap mmx motif mozilla mpeg mpi msn msqli mysql ncurses 
nls offensive oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl php pie png 
postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline ruby scanner sdl session shared 
sharedmem slang sockets spell spl sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd theora tiff 
truetype unicode usb wxwindows x86 xml xml2 xmms xslt xv xvid yahoo zlib"

[Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2004-11-24 13:18:40 UTC]

Could someone from the cjk herd help out? :)

[Comment 2 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) 2004-11-24 17:29:51 UTC]

Intlfonts is fixed-width font, so you may want
to emerge kochi-substitute, sazanami and/or
ja-ipafonts (they are TrueType fonts, so you 
don't have to do anything else but run emerge 
to use them with mozilla and konqueror).

[Comment 3 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) 2004-12-02 20:46:43 UTC]

I got a personal reply from him and he said
the original problem was solved by emerging
kochi-substitute. Perhaps we need up-to-date
English documentation to setup Japanese 
environment, just like liquidx write Chinese
howto at http://dev.gentoo.org/~liquidx/