Re: [PATCH] doc: Ask user to install extra packages to display non-English alphabets.

[Alex Vong]

Hi,

On 17/11/2015, Alex Kost <address@hidden> wrote:
> Alex Vong (2015-11-16 19:11 +0300) wrote:
>
>> From f2eac896933814a3d5a85c4c20c1407b692be1ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Alex Vong <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 23:57:35 +0800
>> Subject: [PATCH] doc: Ask user to install extra packages to display
>>  non-English alphabets.
>>
>> * doc/guix.texi (X11 Fonts): Add instruction and example.
>> ---
>>  doc/guix.texi | 5 +++++
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>
>>
>> diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
>> index 3b6955c..dab8ab7 100644
>> --- a/doc/guix.texi
>> +++ b/doc/guix.texi
>> @@ -1000,6 +1000,11 @@ 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}.
>>
>> +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.
>
> 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.
>
I did tried `guix package -i font-adobe-source-han-sans`, but it
didn't work for icecat.

I have tried it just now to remove `font-wqy-zenhei` and install
`font-adobe-source-han-sans`, but it doesn't work for icecat. I guess
it is because `font-adobe-source-han-sans` is probably too new. Well,
it was invented in 2014
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Han_Sans>...

> --
> Alex
>

Cheers,
Alex