I can't see any of the characters in Japanese and Chinese articles. Is there a site I can go to download the fonts so that I can see the characters?
Zoe
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On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 20:40, Zoe wrote:
I can't see any of the characters in Japanese and Chinese articles. Is there a site I can go to download the fonts so that I can see the characters?
I have the impression you are running Windows; if this is the case, visit http://www.windowsupdate.com/
Select updates, wait while Microsoft downloads all personal information on your computer ;) and scroll to the bottom of the list of things you can install; there should be options for fonts supporting various languages.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 20:40:48 -0800 (PST), Zoe zoecomnena@yahoo.com wrote:
I can't see any of the characters in Japanese and Chinese articles. Is there a site I can go to download the fonts so that I can see the characters?
What browser do you use, Zoe? If it's Mozilla(etc) or Opera, you need only install the appropriate unicode fonts. (the best resource is http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/fonts.html ). Microsoft have withdrawn their download page for Arial Unicode MS (which was "free" providing you owned an Office or Publisher license), but I believe that sourceforge now has equivalents. If, however, you use IE, you will need to install "language support packs" (which are really bloody great patches to your operating system.) I hope you have broadband if you want CJK!
On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 19:46:32 +1300, Richard Grevers dramatic@xtra.co.nz wrote:
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 20:40:48 -0800 (PST), Zoe zoecomnena@yahoo.com wrote:
I can't see any of the characters in Japanese and Chinese articles. Is there a site I can go to download the fonts so that I can see the characters?
What browser do you use, Zoe? If it's Mozilla(etc) or Opera, you need only install the appropriate unicode fonts. (the best resource is http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/fonts.html ).
Oops - Alan's site is now at http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 23:40, Zoe wrote:
I can't see any of the characters in Japanese and Chinese articles. Is there a site I can go to download the fonts so that I can see the characters?
I can see some, but not all. The ones that I don't have display as boxes, which is confusing, since I can't tell a mouth from a notdef.
Also, the euro sign displays as a circle with four lines radiating from it. Do I have an obsolete Verdana (I think it shows the same in Times New Roman in AbiWord), or a buggy Qt (unlikely, Abi doesn't use Qt) or what?
phma
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 21:01, Pierre Abbat wrote:
Also, the euro sign displays as a circle with four lines radiating from it. Do I have an obsolete Verdana (I think it shows the same in Times New Roman in AbiWord), or a buggy Qt (unlikely, Abi doesn't use Qt) or what?
Example page and browser version?
Since you've provided no information, I can only make up some wild guesses. ;)
Either: * This alleged euro symbol is encoded as the international currency symbol (the byte 0xA4 in iso-8859-1, or a ¤ or ¤ numeric reference.) In this case, it's showing correctly, but was incorrectly encoded by someone whose browser was using iso-8859-15.
or: * This alleged euro symbol is encoded in some other horribly wrong way which, somehow, ends up showing as the generic currency symbol.
or: * This euro symbol is encoded correctly as € or €, in which case there is a fault somewhere along the line between app, qt, and the font library.
Can you take a look at http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox ? I've stuck some euro symbols and generic currency symbols up at the top, please compare them. If the euro symbols look like real euro symbols, then whatever you've been looking at is wrong and needs to be corrected; please cite it.
If these euro symbols look wrong, then you'd best check a great many configurations. ;)
Also, please try: xfd -fn `xlsfonts | grep verdana.*iso8859-1` xfd -fn `xlsfonts | grep verdana.*iso8859-15` xfd -fn `xlsfonts | grep verdana.*iso10646-1` or reasonable variation to see the things look correct showing characters from those encodings directly.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)