Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Puppy linux CJK font


My kanji pages refused to display their Japanese characters even though SeaMonkey browser had the requested fonts set as options !

Restarting x-server was to no avail.

Finally ignored advice to install huge WQY font package and opted for xfonts-wqy PKG with WenQuanYi Bitmap Song CJK font and no dependencies to install.

But what an ordeal : unix font horrors, decade after decade ... while we have Logtalk for any PROLOG and a Unicode OOP Icon PL for success/fail config app's ... but no, we go with "What Has Worked For Years" - even in Ubuntu -even in otherwise excellent Puppy Linux.

This issue? Occurred in a RAM-loading GRUB Puppy on an Eee PC netbook running off a USB slot SD chip.  You know ... chosen for ease of use and convenience.




1 comment:

KanjiRecog said...

Not over yet - CTRL-+ to zoom page leaaves the CJK characters unchanged.

*!@?!!?!!*!?!