Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 18:03:29 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely9.cicely.de> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: Rob Lahaye <lahaye@users.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: How to make Mozilla display Korean (or CJK-type) characters? Message-ID: <20030512160328.GB7361@cicely9.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <1052754404.308.4.camel@gyros> References: <20030512122341.GK3789@cicely9.cicely.de> <1052754404.308.4.camel@gyros>
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On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 11:46:45AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 08:29, Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 12:47:57PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 11:28, Rob Lahaye wrote: > > fontconfig-2.1_2 > > freetype2-2.0.9 > > IIRC these were recent when I first noticed this problem. > > They're not anymore. You should update to fontconfig-2.2.0, and > freetype2-2.1.4_1. I'll do. > > > to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, ~/.fonts, or, if another location, make > > > sure you add that location to /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/local.conf per the > > > instructions at > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html#ANTIALIAS > > > > Sound like much to read - and given that I run XFree86-4.2.0_1,1 on > > my display. > > Are you expect this might a problem on the X-server? > > I had not thought about this, because no-roman fonts always worked > > until then. > > Mozilla uses a completely new font system now. If you want to take > advantage of it, you need to make sure all your ports are up-to-date. > If you're happy without anti-alias support in Mozilla, then I guess > you're done. However, I can confirm Korean webpages work for me in > Mozilla with anti-alias support. Updating the X server is not always possible. If mozilla has problems with a 1 year old X server than something is wrong. Well - if it's a bug in the server - OK, but if it's requires a specific (maybe XFree only) new feature then it's bad. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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