I just installed Fedora and I’m trying to figure out how to make it display Japanese fonts, by default it displays kanji as Chinese characters, I installed some fonts but still no change, how do I change this?
A. I don’t know much about CJK fonts. I’m just spitballing. I am also half asleep.
B. It depends where the font is displayed. As you probably know, different Japanese, Korean and Chinese characters, which share history and look similar, share one unicode codepoint, see this Wikipedia article. Which specific glyph is shown is decided by some variable that specifies in what language the text is written:
If the text is somewhere in the GUI (the title bar, the panel, some menu), it is probably decided by your default language and locale. This can be changed somewhere in settings. Changing this would also probably change everything to Japanese.
If the text is somewhere on the web, this is decided by the lang parameter of the website. You can’t change this easily.
See if you have Japanese locale installed. Something like ja_JP.UTF-8 should be in the output of localectl list-locales.
If it’s not, you should install it using the following command: sudo dnf install langpacks-ja (I’m not 100 % sure about this and I don’t have a Fedora system to test it on.)
Set the locale: sudo localectl set-locale LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
Reboot your system. Everything should be in Japanese now.
This will (probably) change everything to Japanese – texts in menus, error messages in the terminal, and also the font rendering. This answer on Stack Overflow suggests to do something with your fonts.conf. This way your UI would be in English (or your preferred language) and kanji would render as the Japanese variants.
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So I would find something I wanted to read and then had to ask friends at other schools to get it for me.
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My biggest disappointments were games from Sony — Horizon and Spiderman. Both of them are verified, but both of them crash at start-up.
According to other people, Horizon worked but a recent patch broke it. Spiderman (the first one) launches, freezes after a few seconds, and then the Deck restarts. 🤷♂️
I don’t have anything special installed, I didn’t undervolt anything. My Deck is an officially refurbished unit, so the borderline passable hardware is unfortunately likely. :(
Did you undervolt your SD? Is it the steam version of Spiderman? Did you install it on your SD card or main memory?
The Deck’s basically new, I haven’t done anything to it (yet): No undervolting, no SD card, no non-steam games (except Minecraft).
Uninstall the game. Restart your deck. Install it again.
I’ve tried this already, but it did not work. I’ll try it again, but it’ll take a while, because my internet is really slow.
I’d open a support ticket over it. Since it works for everyone else really well it has to be an issue with your deck, specifically.
Sounds like it’s my a fault of my particular unit. 🫠 As I said, I’ll try to reinstall the game again and if that doesn’t work, I’ll open a ticket. Thanks for the suggestion.
I haven’t played many games on my Deck yet, but all of them—except the two I mentioned—worked very well. Even Baldur’s Gate 3 runs fine and it is a very demanding game. I wonder why just the games from Sony are problematic. The worst thing about this is that they load, seem to run fine for a few seconds, then freeze and crash.
Maybe I’ll bite the bullet and not worry about it now and later I’ll buy Steam Deck 2 sooner rather than later.
If you don’t mind me asking, what is the problem? I have heard (I am being patient and I haven’t bought the game yet.) mostly good thing about running BG3 using Proton.
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The GTK3 port has been in the making for a very long time. Long before anyone even mentioned GTK4. Porting an application to a different GUI toolkit is a lot of work.
Yes, it shouldn’t. Unfortunately, the developers of GTK thrived on changes to the API during the GTK3 era. I don’t know why Go devs don’t (and I am indeed very glad that they don’t). Perhaps it’s because of the different structures of the development teams or perhaps because GTK has more hazy goals. 🤷♂️
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Anyway, I’m just spitballing. Good luck with your project!
It’s basically one click in VS Code. It’s more clicks in Sublime. 🤷♂️ Turning Sublime to a full blown IDE for a bunch of different programming languages takes work and I’m lazy.
How do I have Japanese fonts displayed in Fedora?
I just installed Fedora and I’m trying to figure out how to make it display Japanese fonts, by default it displays kanji as Chinese characters, I installed some fonts but still no change, how do I change this?
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