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Fedora Japanese Font lssue resolved!

Awesome! I am psyched. This Tokyo LUG’s TrueType Fonts Howto posting made my day! Couple of days ago, I was trying to apt-get install kde and some how deleted the whole kde, and was forced to reinstall distro. I was going crazy, because fedora’s japanese fonts are U-G-L-Y. What it is that Fedora uses Japanese default font called Kochi-mincho and Kochi-gothic, but they both had some copyrights issue with Watanabe fonts (I think, not sure, don’t quote me here). So for the distributed version, it by default has “kochi-gothic-subst.ttf” and “kochi-micho-subst.ttf” instead. You can learn more about Font issue here in Japanese Font Wiki and sourceforge.jp’s efont project.
There also is a very good Font-Howto on Linux.
Here is what I did:

  • copy ttf or ttc fonts to your /usr/share/fonts/ja/TrueType/
  • emacs /etc/vfontcap, make sure the font you moved is in there
  • cd to TrueType directory
  • ttindex nameoffont.ttc, ttindex is included in VFlib2 so if you don’t have it, apt-get install VFlib2 but I think it is there if you have Japanese
  • restart

It’s so easy. Happy go lucky!

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