Re: [PATCH] doc: Ask user to install extra packages to display non-English alphabets.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> skribis:

>> diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
>> index 3b6955c..61e3445 100644
>> --- a/doc/guix.texi
>> +++ b/doc/guix.texi
>> @@ -1000,6 +1000,17 @@ 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}.
>>
>> +To display text written in Chinese languages, Japanese, or Korean in
>> +graphical applications, consider installing
>> +@code{font-adobe-source-han-sans} or @code{font-wqy-zenhei}.  The former
> Perhaps we could change `or` to `and/or`, since some packages only
> work with one font but not another, e.g. Icecat.

font-adobe-source-han-sans:cn works fine for me in IceCat.  Maybe you
installed an output other than ‘cn’?

>> +has multiple outputs, one per language family (@pxref{Packages with
>> +Multiple Outputs}).  For instance, the following command installs fonts
>> +for Chinese languages:
> There are two sets of Chinese characters, Simplified Chinese and
> Traditional Chinese. cn is Simplified Chinese used in Mainland and tw
> is Traditional Chinese used in Taiwan/HK/Macau. So I think `Chinese
> Language` should be changed to `Simplified Chinese`, what is your
> idea?

I wrote “Chinese languages”, plural, because, IIUC,
font-adobe-source-han-sans:cn provides glyphs for several languages in
the broad Chinese language family.

Does that make sense?

Ludo’.