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Re: Chinese Character Data

Posted by Peter Uhnak on Aug 18, 2015; 4:49am
URL: https://forum.world.st/Chinese-Character-Data-tp4843635p4843643.html

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 4:17 AM, Sean P. DeNigris <[hidden email]> wrote:

Can I e.g. paste Chinese characters from a web page and save as data? I don't
need to be able to use Chinese characters for code. I see pasting creates a
wide string but the characters do not display. I assume this is because my
font does not support them, but in the Settings Browser I only see 3 choices
on Mac, none of which seem to display them.

This may be due to FreeType not really being loaded? Try unchecking and then checking again "Use free type...".

But apart from fonts, CJK content should work.

However I don't quite understand why would I need to change font so CJK characters are displayed.

Because no matter what font I pick, there will be language whose characters are not supported...

and why do I need to select the font in the first place? My linux terminal has DejaVu Sans Mono font and yet it displays CJK characters just fine,

so surely we can do better than a stupid urxvt terminal?

Peter