Showing posts with label Sea Monkey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sea Monkey. Show all posts

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.