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Fluf Fredriksson
Registered User
Join date: 8 Feb 2007
Posts: 248
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09-19-2007 09:09
It's not a big issue since I don't understand Japanese anyway  But... When I see someone with a foreign alphabet typing in chat, all I get it "*****" (I think, though it might be "#####"  ... instead of beautifully rendered if untranslatable (by me) foreign characters. Is there some way round this? Is this something to do with the default Unicode font not being there? Thanks. |
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Nefertiti Nefarious
Registered User
Join date: 5 Oct 2006
Posts: 135
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09-19-2007 11:02
I see Japanese and other non-English characters.
You need to have the fonts installed on your system - it's not the client.
I'm not sure what I installed that you didn't.
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Tofu Linden
Linden Lab Employee
Join date: 29 Aug 2006
Posts: 471
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09-19-2007 11:07
International font support is a bit of a hack right now; re-point the 'unicode.ttf' symlink in the installation directory to your favourite unicode TTF.
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Fluf Fredriksson
Registered User
Join date: 8 Feb 2007
Posts: 248
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09-20-2007 03:13
Ok I got it. Seems to want to point at kochi-gothic which I've now installed and the symlink looks good. Now to find some foreign typists Thanks! |
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Mystiphi Giha
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Join date: 24 May 2007
Posts: 17
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how and where do i find this
03-18-2008 14:27
Hi where do i find this to point to the Unicode link ?? I would like to be able to see Japanese fonts, as i have some business notecards being translated for some Japanese clients. Do i need to reinstall SL or where is this directory ??  |
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Qualsha Nordberg
Registered User
Join date: 12 Apr 2006
Posts: 4
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Clarification?
03-20-2008 19:23
From: Tofu Linden International font support is a bit of a hack right now; re-point the 'unicode.ttf' symlink in the installation directory to your favourite unicode TTF. Uhm... could someone translate the above quote for me? I've been trying to do this too and apparently some people I know have managed to do add international support entirely by accident. |
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Asriazh Frye
Smart Cookie
Join date: 30 Sep 2006
Posts: 173
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03-21-2008 00:23
From: Qualsha Nordberg Uhm... could someone translate the above quote for me? I've been trying to do this too and apparently some people I know have managed to do add international support entirely by accident. It means theres a "unicode.ttf" link inside the SL client folder, pointing to "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/kochi/kochi-gothic.ttf". You can either get the kochi-gothic.tff, create the folder its supposed to be at and put the TTF into that folder or you select another unicode TTF, delete the old "unicode.ttf" symlink and create a new one, pointing to the TTF of your choice. both will get you unicode support, meaning you'll be able to see japanese characters and such and not only lines filled with "-----". the "kochi-gothic.ttf" is inside this RPM for example: http://www.sh-linux.org/rpm-2003/SRPMS/ttfonts-ja-1.2-8.src.rpm Good luck ^_^ -Asriazh |
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Tofu Linden
Linden Lab Employee
Join date: 29 Aug 2006
Posts: 471
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03-27-2008 03:02
New unicode font support is going through QA right now, which gets rid of the unicode.ttf hack and should generally be much better. It's currently expected to be part of the 1.20.0 Viewer.
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