[ydl-gen] Online Chinese Language Support Help?

[執事尼古拉]

I ended up finding fonts at the following sites which fixed the problem.

http://wqy.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/enindex.cgi

http://www.altlinux.com/index.php?module=sisyphus&package=chinese-fonts-ttf

On 5/4/07, 執事尼古拉 <DeaconNikolai at stanosheck.com> wrote:
> 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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