From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
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 22:37:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lh9ws3y9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADrxHD9Ve2KzJ3j0wtLNjw_2DX23CxSKLUeon_S2X7+oeaCgzg@mail.gmail.com> (Alex Vong's message of "Wed, 18 Nov 2015 02:46:55 +0800")
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’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-17 21:37 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
2015-11-17 18:46 ` Alex Vong
2015-11-17 21:37 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-11-19 16:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-18 2:55 ` Andreas Enge
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