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* How do I see Japanese characters in Icecat?
@ 2018-09-06 18:16 Luther Thompson
  2018-09-06 19:33 ` Benjamin Slade
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Luther Thompson @ 2018-09-06 18:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-guix

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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* Re: How do I see Japanese characters in Icecat?
  2018-09-06 18:16 How do I see Japanese characters in Icecat? Luther Thompson
@ 2018-09-06 19:33 ` Benjamin Slade
  2018-09-06 19:37   ` Ricardo Wurmus
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Benjamin Slade @ 2018-09-06 19:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Luther Thompson; +Cc: help-guix

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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* Re: How do I see Japanese characters in Icecat?
  2018-09-06 19:33 ` Benjamin Slade
@ 2018-09-06 19:37   ` Ricardo Wurmus
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ricardo Wurmus @ 2018-09-06 19:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Benjamin Slade; +Cc: help-guix


Benjamin Slade <slade@jnanam.net> writes:

> 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.

You may also need to run “fc-cache -f” first to update the font cache.

--
Ricardo

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