Re: [tlug] The wrong kanji

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

>> I want Chinese support
> 
> On an Ubuntu system with both Chinese and Japanese fonts, the fonts
> look fine under the respective locales.  The easiest way to see
> Japanese "correctly" is to simply launch the session/application with
> your locale set to "ja_JP.UTF-8".  If you would prefer to use an
> English locale, some hacking is required in /etc/fonts.

I definitely want the English locale. Do you have some pointers for the
/etc/fonts hacking, as I've never done that before. (Everything works
fine on the ubuntu 8.04 machine; it is just 10.04 that is giving
preference to Chinese over Japanese.)

My needs are not that different from most people on this list I imagine:
  1. English is user interface language;
  2. Need to be able to view email and web pages in foreign languages,
including both Japanese and Chinese;
  3. When asian glyphs are ambiguous give preference to the Japanese
glyph. (I.e. only use chinese fonts when a web page, or email,
explicitly describes itself as chinese; otherwise assume it is Japanese.)

I have 1 and 2 working fine, it is just the 3rd point that seems to be
the problem (*) with Ubuntu 10 (which is also what Dave is using IIRC).

Darren

*: Though not a bug; if you live in China the current behaviour is a
feature :-)


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