Re: Ghostscript crashes on Japanese characters on Ubuntu 16.04

[Masamichi Hosoda]

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> After deleting the the noto font (rm -r
> /usr/share/fonts/opentype/noto/), everything works fine.
> 
> The font noto was not part of ubuntu Desktop 14.04 64 Bit, I've checked
> that.
> 
> I have no idea, what might be wrong with this font, ghostscript or
> lilypond. However, deleting the font is a workaround.

Maybe, your Noto Sans CJK font is OTC (OpenType Collection) font.
https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/cjk/

If I understand correctly,
Ghostscript cannot handle OTC font because it is new format.

You can use `Region specific OTF subset' version Noto Sans CJK fonts
because they are not OTC fonts.

Or, you can use other Japanese fonts by the following commands.

$ sudo apt-get install fonts-ipafont-mincho
$ sudo apt-get install fonts-ipafont-gothic
$ sudo apt-get install fonts-ipaexfont-mincho
$ sudo apt-get install fonts-ipaexfont-gothic