[ydl-gen] Online Chinese Language Support Help?

[執事尼古拉]

Dear David,

       Thank you, can you tell me where to get Deja Vu and how to install
it. One of the many things that I am not experienced with in Linux is
obtaining and installing fonts.

>
> On 5/3/07, David Seikel <onefang at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 3 May 2007 20:26:53 -0600 "執事尼古拉"
> > <DeaconNikolai at Stanosheck.com> wrote:
> >
> > >         Unfortunately, none of the fonts available seem to help this.
> > > I would think any UTF-8 font should be able to show the Chinese
> > > characters, but no such luck.
> >
> > Not all UTF-8 fonts cover the entire Unicode character space, it's a
> > big space with thousands of characters.  It's also not just a matter of
> > fonts, there is the character encoding to consider as well.  My copy of
> > Firefox has 8 different character encodings covering 3 different
> > variations of Chinese, and each of those can have 4 different fonts.
> > That's not including the 7 variations on generic Unicode encodings.  On
> > the other hand, you mentioned that you have taken care of the character
> > encoding already.
> >
> > Since YDL is essentially an English language Linux distro, with TSS
> > having too small a staff to cater to all the worlds languages, or even
> > a small fraction of the most popular languages, my advice is to speak
> > with other Chinese Firefox users and see what solutions they have come
> > up with.
> >
> > I neither speak nor read Chinese, so I can't really offer much advice.
> > Both my YDL boxes are currently tied up with some testing so that I
> > can't check those web pages right now from YDL.  I'll check them under
> > YDL later.
> >
> > A font called DejaVu may help.
> >
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Sincerely,
Nicholas Stanosheck
http://Stanosheck.com
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