Questions relating to the Chinese language and fonts
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Web browser is having problem on processing js in UTF-8
I am using Firefox 20.0, but once I was browsing a website(Chinese) and the Lunar Calendar javascript got something like NaN or Undefined. The website has been tested under iPod, Firefox in Windows ...
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13.04 mangled my language support [duplicate]
I'm in the US, and just upgraded to 13.04, now all of my menus are half English, half Chinese, and going into Language Support and applying English system-wide does nothing.
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A better input method for Chinese in Emacs?
I would like to type Chinese in Emacs. I followed this link, and tried several input methods including chinese-py. It seems that, unlike normal IME of an operation system, it is not possible to type ...
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Quick Chinese input
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 and Quick Classic of Chinese input method.
I cannot flip to next page of the choices of words.
Please help. Many thanks.
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LibreOffice - Why Chinese for my uploads?
Didn't use to happen. Now happens with any upload of csv data, regardless of content (and it isn't Chinese!).
I checked
cat /etc/default/locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
My language settings are all ...
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How do I configure fcitx googlepinyin IM?
I've installed the fcitx googlepinyin wrapper IM, opened the "fcitx configure tool" and can't seem to add any input methods. Am I missing something?
Any other recommendations for a pinyin input ...
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Cairo cannot render Chinese(or Asian) text
I use the Cairo library to draw Chinese text.
Cairo rendering Chinese text On Windows works well. But on Ubuntu(12.04) it shows the Chinese characters as boxes. Why? If I don't want to depend on some ...
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Ubuntu using chinese language after power outage. How do I change it back? [closed]
The title really says it all. It looks like I'm using Chinese/Japanese/Korean language or something after a power outage knocked me off.
Can anyone help me restore it back to English? I'm fairly new ...
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ubuntu tweak menus in chinese please help
I installed Ubuntu Tweak and the menus are partly Romanian (native and system language) and partly Chinese (totally foreign to me). I searched the web, no answer for this problem. I would very much ...
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Install chinese font for ubuntu server
I have a vps with ubuntu 12.04 LTS installed and I was wondering how do you install chinese font so I can display sites that contain chinese characters?
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How do I make iBus IME show more than five characters at a time?
I use both iBus-Pinyin and iBus-Chewing, but they are inconvenient because they only display five characters at a time. Is there a way to configure them to display more?
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Ubuntu 12.10 Language help!
For some weird reason language settings have gone awry and the OS language changed for some random reason from English to Chinese/Japanese. (I do not have a slightest idea why; keyboard is ...
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Chinese language gets installed by default
In couple of versions of Ubuntu so far, Chinese language gets installed alongside English. I cannot remove it, and after couple of logins Chinese will get set to be my default language automatically.
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No input method choice appear on iBus
I've installed iBus and ibus-mozc, an input method engine of Japanese from the repository on Kubuntu 12.04.
Then attempted to enable mozc from Preference > "Input Method" tab > "Select Input ...
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How do I display Chinese/Japanese characters in a Linux VT console?
I have an installer program which runs in a default Ubuntu 12.04 Linux VT console and uses the "dialog" program to display simple graphical input boxes. After the user selects either Chinese or ...
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install Chinese(and other utf-8) fonts for Xvfb?
I have installed these packages:
apt-get install xvfb xfonts-base xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi firefox
But in my Firefox in Xvfb on Ubuntu Server, the Chinese characters look like:
How to install ...
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How to clear chinese input history
I am using ibus and it stored the words I chose so after I wrote a word many times the word will come up as first choice after I write the pinyin. How do I clear the history?
And how do I set it so ...
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How to display Chinese character?
I have a csv file which contains English and Chinese words, in XP I could open it with Notepad++ and it displayed both without problem, but when I went to Ubuntu 12.04 using gedit, it showed Chinese ...
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Blurry Chinese fonts in 12.04
LHS browser is in Ubuntu 11.10 which renders the chinese text perfectly.
RHS however, is in Ubuntu 12.04, which renders blurry chinese.
Can anyone tell me why Ubuntu cannot render Chinese text ...
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How could Chinese users pay for an app in software center?
I am a Chinese user, and I want to buy the game braid, but I don't have paypal, any cheap and safe way to solve this?
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Nautilus Folders Turned Chinese
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with GNOME Shell 3.4. I've been having problems with language settings being changed to Chinese (i.imgur.com/GR2rn.png). I have fixed the problem of menus and ...
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Chinese text rendering strangely after upgrade to 12.04
I just upgraded to 12.04 and it's had a very strange effect on the way Chinese text displays on my system. In both Chrome and gedit, text that would have displayed normally in 11.10 seems to be ...
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Why is Chinese text displaying strangely?
I just upgraded to 12.04 and should have pretty default settings, yet Chinese text is displaying inconsistently. In the example below, for instance, 九 and 山 (two out of three characters) look as ...
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GNOME application doesn't use the system input method
I set my system input method to gcin with im-switcher.
But when I use some GNOME based application, such as gedit and gnome-terminal, my default input method is still Simple(i.e. I can type only ...
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How to use two different fonts for chinese and english in firefox?
I want to use Wenquanyi for Chinese and Palatino for English in firefox .
How to do it ?
Thanks
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How do I change the default Chinese font?
I've installed two Chinese fonts from the repos: UMing and UKai. I like better how UKai looks, but the default font picked by Ubuntu (when selecting a non-Chinese font) is UMing. For example, my ...
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How to change to default english language?
I just accidentally set my Ubuntu to chinese and I don't understand anything that it says. This makes it difficult to change the language, although I had enter Locale to change the language because ...
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How can I configure a Chinese input method?
How can I configure a Chinese input method for KDE? I don't want a Chinese locale, just to write Chinese characters, mainly for learning purposes. (I'm still learning the language, so switching the ...
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How to input chinese in empathy?
Small problem here: I use Ibus to input chinese, until now, everything works fine, but I can't input chinese in empathy. I'm on gnome 3, enjoying the integration of empathy with the DE (so i don't ...
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How to make the VT display chinese characters?
When I use the VT (CTRL+ALT+F1),it will only display replacement characters for chinese, but from the alternative installation CD I can see, that it's actually possible to display chinese in the VT. ...
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Chinese font with no smoothing got set as default after installing Chinese Languge Support (how to disable it?)
Before:
After:
I suspect this is the undesired font:
EDIT: I think is this font: AR PL UMing TW.
Is there a way of removing it or giving preference to another Chinese font?
