Japanese Fonts

[4reign]

Does anyone know what font package needs to be installed to solve this problem? I'm running a Debian based install. I've used synaptic to search for every Japanese related package offered and can't find anything new.
Thanks

[Hayl]

these ones work for me.

http://mikachan-font.com/

[4reign]

thanks for the site. Does it have any debian packages? I could only find a few RPMs and bzip files.

Also, could this just be a font configuration issue? I am fairly ignorant about fonts, I just noticed another similar problem.

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http://palmaddicts.blogspot.com/

[hiwa]

I saw your screenshot.png. Why some of the Japanese characters are correctly displayed?
What is your locale and fontpath setting? What is you browser font(s) setting?
Do/does you/your-system have any Japanese TTF installed?

[4reign]

well truthfully hiwa I have no idea how to check the font path. Could you point me in the right direction?

There are several browser settings I have for Japanese:
Japanese (EUC-JP)
Japanese (ISO-2202-JP)
Japanese (Shift-JIS)

None of these display kanji characters correctly.

I'm pretty sure I have the locale set to U.S.
Thanks for the help
-Noah

[Hayl]

go to my web site, i have scripts and a how to for easy font isntalls.

link is in my sig.

[4reign]

Hayl
Do Debian based systems have the /opt/ttfonts/local directory? I've ran your scrip but it said this dir was missing. Not know what else to do, I went ahead and created it. This was the result:

bash-2.05b# ./quickfont -d /opt/ttfonts/local
quickfont: Starting font installation:
./quickfont: line 106: -o: command not found
Processing fonts...
head: cannot open `fonts.scale' for reading: No such file or directory
tail: cannot open `fonts.scale' for reading: No such file or directory
Making font aliases...
Created 0 aliases
Wrote aliases to fonts.alias
Refreshing X Font Cache...
/usr/bin/X11/xset: bad font path element (#64), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax
./quickfont: line 121: fonts.alias: command not found
./quickfont: line 122: fonts.alias: command not found
./quickfont: line 123: fonts.alias: command not found
Completed!

Your new fonts are installed and should appear in your X apps now.

NOTE: for Gnome and KDE, you may need to run additional
commands... refer to the appropriate documentation.

NOTE: With Gnome it is easiest to keep all your TT Fonts in one
place and make a symlink in your home directory to it named ~/.fonts

!!!!!! IMPORTANT !!!!!!
Unless you are just updating a pre-existing font directory,
you must add the following line to your /etc/X11/XF86Config
file in the "Section "Files"" or the next time you restart
X, the new fonts will not display.

FontPath "/opt/ttfonts/local"

bash-2.05b#