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From: Benjamin Slade <slade@jnanam.net>
To: Luther Thompson <lutheroto@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How do I see Japanese characters in Icecat?
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 13:33:56 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ejy774r.fsf@jnanam.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180906141641.1fd04906@gmail.com>

Luther,

I think installing one of these font packages:

font-wqy-zenhei
font-wqy-microhei
font-adobe-source-han-sans

And then restarting IceCat should solve the issue for Japanese.


On 2018-09-06T12:16:41-0600, Luther Thompson <lutheroto@gmail.com> wrote:

 > This is hopefully a simple question. What package do I install to get
 > Icecat to show non-latin characters in web pages? I often see those
 > hexadecimal boxes in place of missing characters.

 > If there is a separate package for each language, I would like to
 > install the one for Japanese. I don't really know anything about how
 > font packages work.

 > Luther



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  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-06 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-06 18:16 How do I see Japanese characters in Icecat? Luther Thompson
2018-09-06 19:33 ` Benjamin Slade [this message]
2018-09-06 19:37   ` Ricardo Wurmus

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