From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Ask user to install extra packages to display non-English alphabets.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 21:23:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ziycqybk.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mvuc7gjd.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:10:46 +0100")
Ludovic Courtès (2015-11-17 19:10 +0300) wrote:
> Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> +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.
>
> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> I didn't try 'font-wqy-zenhei', but there is also
>> 'font-adobe-source-han-sans' package (thanks to 宋文武) that "solves"
>> Chinese, Japanese and Korean symbols I've met so far.
>
> What about this:
>
>
> 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
> +has multiple outputs, one per language family (@pxref{Packages with
> +Multiple Outputs}). For instance, the following command installs fonts
> +for Chinese languages:
> +
> +@example
> +guix package -i font-adobe-source-han-sans:cn
> +@ene example
Typo ↑
Otherwise, this description looks perfect for me.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-17 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-16 16:11 [PATCH] doc: Ask user to install extra packages to display non-English alphabets Alex Vong
2015-11-17 8:38 ` 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 [this message]
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
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