This is the first in a series of little linux tidbits that I’ll post. They are for my own benefit, in case I ever get alzheimer’s and need to configure SAMBA or something. If these are of any interest at all to anyone else, it’s a miracle. The problem will be in this summary, the explanation and answer are “below the fold” under “more…”<\/p>\n
Symptoms:
\nJapanese characters in gnome2 are renderred using a small, bitmapped font instead of beautiful kochi gothic or mincho.
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\nProblem:
\nIn gnome2, pango is the system that maps applications’ requests for fonts with the actual fonts. In this case, pango is returning a crappy font instead of the one we want. Specifically, it is returning fonts in \/usr\/share\/fonts\/bitmapped-fonts, which are provided by the bitmapped-fonts rpm. You can’t remove the rpm without causing trouble.<\/p>\n
testing:
\npage 48 of the character map has the characters in question.<\/p>\n
Solution:
\nedit \/etc\/fonts\/fonts.conf and unspecify \/usr\/share\/fonts. Respecify only the subdirectories that you want. fonts.conf specifies top-level directories and scans below.<\/p>\n
then, run \/etc\/init.d\/xfs reload, and restart all applications that you want to test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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