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 17:10:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvuc7gjd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151117001132.557bbd8f@debian> (Alex Vong's message of "Tue, 17 Nov 2015 00:11:32 +0800")
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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:
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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
+
@c TODO What else?
@c *********************************************************************
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Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-17 16:10 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 [this message]
2015-11-17 18:23 ` Alex Kost
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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