unofficial mirror of guix-devel@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Ask user to install extra packages to display non-English alphabets.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 00:11:32 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151117001132.557bbd8f@debian> (raw)

From f2eac896933814a3d5a85c4c20c1407b692be1ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 23:57:35 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Ask user to install extra packages to display
 non-English alphabets.

* doc/guix.texi (X11 Fonts): Add instruction and example.
---
 doc/guix.texi | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 3b6955c..dab8ab7 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -1000,6 +1000,11 @@ to display fonts, you will have to install fonts with Guix as well.
 Essential font packages include @code{gs-fonts}, @code{font-dejavu}, and
 @code{font-gnu-freefont-ttf}.
 
+In addition, if your graphical applications display non-english alphabets,
+you may need to install extra font packages.
+For instance, as of 2015, to correctly display CJK fonts in @code{icecat}
+browser package, you should install @code{font-wqy-zenhei} font package.
+
 @c TODO What else?
 
 @c *********************************************************************
-- 
2.6.3

             reply	other threads:[~2015-11-16 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-16 16:11 Alex Vong [this message]
2015-11-17  8:38 ` [PATCH] doc: Ask user to install extra packages to display non-English alphabets Alex Kost
2015-11-17 18:28   ` Alex Vong
2015-11-18 17:55     ` Alex Kost
2015-11-17 15:53 ` Paul van der Walt
2015-11-17 16:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-17 18:23   ` Alex Kost
2015-11-17 18:46   ` Alex Vong
2015-11-17 21:37     ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-19 16:26       ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-18  2:55     ` Andreas Enge

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://guix.gnu.org/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20151117001132.557bbd8f@debian \
    --to=alexvong1995@gmail.com \
    --cc=guix-devel@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).