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Delirium's Brother
Joined: 08 May 2006
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 Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 11:53 pm Post subject: F!@#ing Hangul Fonts--Linux Grandmaster Wanted! |
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| Okay, I have a lot of hard-won knowledge of linux (slackware to be precise), but I just can't deal with figuring out how to install hangul fonts for web applications. I don't want to read anymore confusing text docs either. I need the help of someone who can guide me through the process with PMs. If you are a linux grandmaster up to the challenge, PM me. Please don't post anymore links (and snide comments from Mac and Windows people will not be helpful either). |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:21 am Post subject: |
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| some Korean Linux-using dude wrote: |
Korean language support
Seeing Korean characters
Standard XFree86/Xorg comes with 3 Daewoo fonts for Korean characters:
* hanglm16.pcf.gz (-daewoo-mincho-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-160-ksc5601.1987-0)
* hanglm24.pcf.gz (-daewoo-mincho-medium-r-normal--24-170-100-100-c-240-ksc5601.1987-0)
* hanglg16.pcf.gz (-daewoo-gothic-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-160-ksc5601.1987-0)
Although application like Hanterm uses them, Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla, and other GTK+ applications uses TTF and /etc/fonts/fonts.conf instead. So, here is what I did to see Korean characters.
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Download and extract Cyberbit.ttf which is all-in-one package, consisting of Cyberbase (European) and CyberCJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) fonts. In addition, you can download Un Fonts which is TTF fonts converted from HLaTeX fonts.
2. Install the fonts to /usr/local/fonts/TTF:
cp Cyberbit.ttf /usr/local/fonts/TTF
cd /usr/local/fonts/
mkfontscale */ # generates 'fonts.scale'
mkfontdir */ # generates 'fonts.dir'
fc-cache
Then, put
<dir>/usr/local/fonts</dir>
in /etc/fonts/local.conf, so that the fonts are picked up by the applications.
Typing Korean characters
In addition to seeing Korean chars, I needed to type English/Korean chars as well. On stock Slackware-9.1,
GTK_IM_MODULE=hangul
will allow you to type Korean chars, but only Korean. Applications (Firefox, Thunderbird) will not accept English letters. You need
GTK_IM_MODULE=hangul2
Since 'hangul2' is not found in /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules in Slackware-9.1, you need to download imhangul package, and compile/install as usual. For post-install script (./install/doinst.sh in Slackware package), I used
IM_HANGUL_GTK_IMMODULE_FILE=/etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules
DIR=/etc/gtk-2.0
test -d $DIR || mkdir -p $DIR
gtk-query-immodules-2.0 > $IM_HANGUL_GTK_IMMODULE_FILE
Just like Hanterm, <Shift-Space> will toggle English/Korean mode, and <F9> will enable Hanja mode. |
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Delirium's Brother
Joined: 08 May 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 1:22 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the response, but I'm still screwed.
| Demophobe wrote: |
| some Korean Linux-using dude wrote: |
Korean language support
Seeing Korean characters
Standard XFree86/Xorg comes with 3 Daewoo fonts for Korean characters:
* hanglm16.pcf.gz (-daewoo-mincho-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-160-ksc5601.1987-0)
* hanglm24.pcf.gz (-daewoo-mincho-medium-r-normal--24-170-100-100-c-240-ksc5601.1987-0)
* hanglg16.pcf.gz (-daewoo-gothic-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-160-ksc5601.1987-0)
Understood, so far.
Although application like Hanterm uses them, Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla, and other GTK+ applications uses TTF and /etc/fonts/fonts.conf instead Of course not, why would it be easy!!!. So, here is what I did to see Korean characters.
1.
Download and extract Cyberbit.ttf which is all-in-one package, consisting of Cyberbase (European) and CyberCJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) fonts. In addition, you can download Un Fonts which is TTF fonts converted from HLaTeX fonts. Okay, got it.
2. Install the fonts to /usr/local/fonts/TTF: Don't have this folder. Am I supposed to create it?
cp Cyberbit.ttf /usr/local/fonts/TTF Okay
cd /usr/local/fonts/ Okay
mkfontscale */ # generates 'fonts.scale' Do I input an asteriks and the slash or does that stand for a variable? What one?
mkfontdir */ # generates 'fonts.dir' Same question
fc-cache
Then, put
<dir>/usr/local/fonts</dir>
in /etc/fonts/local.conf, so that the fonts are picked up by the applications.
Don't have this file either. Do I create it? Or is it supposed to be there?
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Help? Only partly as you can see |
Thanks anyway. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 3:18 am Post subject: |
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| some other dude wrote: |
Apparently Slackware 9.1 comes with a pre-prepared folder for TTF fonts (found at /usr/X11/lib/fonts/TTF).
In addition, all filenames need to be lower case. Use this Perl one-liner to do just that.
find . | perl -ne 'chomp; next unless -e; $new=lc($_); rename $_,$new'
You will then need to generate the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files as well as the encodings using the mkfontscale and mkfontdir utilities which come with XFree86 4.3 (The X-Server in Slackware 9.0). Type the following in the directory in which you have placed your fonts...
/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontscale /usr/local/share/fonts/ttfonts/
/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir /usr/local/share/fonts/ttfonts/
/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir -e /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings
The X server supplied with Slackware has a font server capable of displaying TrueType fonts built in, we just need to let it know where the directory containing the fonts is. Open /etc/X11/XF86Config and add FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts/ttfonts" (or whatever your font path is,) to the top of the list of FontPaths. Whilst you are editing the file, make sure that the line Load "freetype" (In the "Module" section) is uncommented.
You also need to edit the file /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. Add <dir>/usr/local/share/fonts/ttfonts/</dir> (or whatever the path to your font directory is) in amongst the other paths to font directories.
Although editing the file fonts.conf works in Slackware 9.1 it is warned against - instead try editing /etc/fonts/local.conf, this may not be necessary if you use the existing TTF fonts directory metioned above in Slackware 9.1 |
| yet another dude wrote: |
Adding TrueType fonts
A modern Linux distribution comes with not one but two font-handling systems: the one built into X, which serves fonts to Xlib, Motif and GTK1 apps; and fontconfig, which serves fonts to GTK2 and QT apps.
New fonts need to be added to both.
You probably have a collection of TrueType fonts already. If not, then at least install Microsoft's Core Fonts for the Web (which you can usually find on linuxpackages.net), and a Unicode font such as Bitstream Cyberbit, because you need them to properly display webpages.
Put all the .ttf files in �/usr/local/share/fonts�.
Now...
cd /usr/local/share/fonts
su -c '/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir .'
su -c '/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontscale .'
This should create fonts.dir and fonts.scale files with entries for each one of the fonts in �/usr/local/share/fonts�.
Now copy �/etc/fonts/fonts.conf� to �/etc/fonts/local.conf�. Edit local.conf and delete everything between the <fontconfig> and </fontconfig> tags. Between those two tags write one line:
<dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir>
Execute �su -c '/usr/X11R6/bin/fc-cache -f -v'�.
Now open �/etc/X11/xorg.conf�. Locate the fontpath lines and add one for �/usr/local/share/fonts/�.
Restart X. You will see your new fonts listed in the outpout of both xlsfonts (or xfontsel) and fc-list, which respectively lists the fonts available to X and Fontconfig. |
I think this covers it.....? |
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Delirium's Brother
Joined: 08 May 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 3:35 am Post subject: |
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Thanks, that's medal worthy assistance, finally. I nominate you for Linux Grandmaster of Dave's ESL Cafe.
p.s. this board needs a medal system.
p.p.s. Adding this to a sticky somewhere would be nice. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 3:46 am Post subject: |
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| Delirium's Brother wrote: |
Thanks, that's medal worthy assistance, finally. I nominate you for Linux Grandmaster of Dave's ESL Cafe.
p.s. this board needs a medal system.
p.p.s. Adding this to a sticky somewhere would be nice. |
Ahh....the irony....and then the comedy....a sticky for Linux.... 
dbee is The Man with Linux, but he's not around too much these days. |
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