#1 2016-07-26 21:24:40

sexynsmartjenny

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East Asian language once again [solved]

ok, so I can read Japanese, since I installed ibus, but for some reason I can't see Korean, not just in my browser, but also folders that have korean on it, is also invisible.  I thought the entire East ASian language package should contain Korean.   ...

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pvsage

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Re: East Asian language once again [solved]

^ The unifont package should cover almost everything.

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Re: East Asian language once again [solved]

@johnraff has better package recommendations, IIRC. He's near Australia so it will be a few hours before he sees this.

A quick search brought this package up. Reboot maybe to refresh the font cache...
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/fonts-unfonts-core

More Asian packages...

Korean https://packages.debian.org/jessie/fonts-unfonts-extra

Chinese https://packages.debian.org/jessie/fonts-arphic-ukai

Japanese https://packages.debian.org/jessie/fonts-ipafont-mincho

Firefox Korean localizations https://packages.debian.org/jessie/firefox-esr-l10n-ko

Post back if that doesn't fix your browser fonts.

But yes, unifont is a great quick-fix...
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/unifont

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sexynsmartjenny

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Re: East Asian language once again [solved]

okay, so can you tell me how step by step I would install those packages?  Add a line to my repo, and update, then sudo apt-get.  I kind of know what I am used to do by now, since I have done them so many times, but I still get fuzzy with which lines of codes goes where?

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Re: East Asian language once again [solved]

No, don't change any sources. You have Bunsenlabs, your sources are set unless you've changed them.

Open a terminal [Windows key+t] and run the following...

sudo apt install fonts-unfonts-extra firefox-esr-l10n-ko

Enter (or Y, capital letter letter means it's the default answer) to proceed, n to abort.

Logout, and see if things work with your next login. If not try rebooting and post back what happens.

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pvsage

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Re: East Asian language once again [solved]

Here's the list from a post I made in 2010; many of the package names have changed since then.

ttf-arphic-uming
ttf-wqy-zenhei
ttf-sazanami-mincho
ttf-sazanami-gothic
ttf-unfonts-core
ttf-unfonts-extra
ttf-indic-fonts
ttf-tmuni
ttf-dzongkha
ttf-khmeros
ttf-jura
ttf-sinhala-lklug
ttf-sil-padauk

I'll update the list with the current package names after I get caught up on the night's posts.

EDIT:  The current packages are:
fonts-arphic-uming
fonts-wqy-zenhei
fonts-ipafont-mincho
fonts-ipafont-gothic
fonts-unfonts-core
fonts-unfonts-extra
fonts-indic
fonts-tibetan-machine
fonts-dzongkha
fonts-khmeros
fonts-jura
fonts-lklug-sinhala
fonts-sil-padauk

To install them with a single command:

sudo apt-get install fonts-arphic-uming fonts-wqy-zenhei fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-unfonts-core fonts-unfonts-extra fonts-indic fonts-tibetan-machine fonts-dzongkha fonts-khmeros fonts-jura fonts-lklug-sinhala fonts-sil-padauk

By the way, I originally found all these fonts by searching Wikipedia for "linux international language support"; I found the current list by searching aptitude using the unique strings in their names (or, in the case of the Tibetan font, searching Google for "debian tmuni").

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Re: East Asian language once again [solved]

@Op you may check this thread as well.

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Re: East Asian language once again [solved]

fonts-noto covers most of the CJK characters. It also looks good.

That rings a bell, maybe what @johnraff suggested at the #! forums. I can't find the post.

This is recent. We're supposed to be covered by fonts-droid, ttf-unifont FTW though...
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=307
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/ttf-unifont

Moar http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=778

^ Wow. anonymous, that person was awesome.

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Re: East Asian language once again [solved]

sudo apt install fonts-arphic-ukai fonts-arphic-uming fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-unfonts-core

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help%3AMu … NU.2FLinux

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pvsage

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Re: East Asian language once again [solved]

^ Eyup, unifont covers most glyphs on that page.  (Unifont is the only international glyph package I've installed on this system.)  There are still holes in the Vietnamese character set, but that's an upstream issue.

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Re: East Asian language once again [solved]

I've been invoked...

...but I've got nothing much to add really - you all know a lot more fonts than I do. My favourite for Japanese and Latin is fonts-vlgothic but that's just a personal choice made some years ago before some of these came out.

BTW @jenny, for reading other languages all you need is a font that has the characters.

Ibus is an input method tool which you would need for writing in complex multi-byte languages like Japanese or Chinese. In fact you need a tool like SCIM (one of the oldest), UIM, IBUS or, what I now use, FCITX (all available in Debian), and then you need an Input Method Editor like ANTHY or MOZC for Japanese, for example. I like Mozc, but for other languages there are many other options. A blog post from 2011: https://blogs.gnome.org/happyaron/2011/ … f-summary/

Writing is a complicated topic...

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sexynsmartjenny

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Re: East Asian language once again [solved]

@johnraff  Thanks, I still use ibus since I know it from crunchbang.  I'm scared of new things because, I guess, I'm almost 30 years old now.  LOL, I still use the stupid username I got from high school.  Keeps the memory of my youth!  It took me years to switch from crunchang waldroff to bunsenlabs.