Re: ugly Japanese fonts / Ubuntu linux

Ben Bullock wrote:

After the numerous problems with Ubuntu 8.4, I'm thinking of switching
back to Fedora, or to something else anyway. They also managed to bugger
up support for the Japanese keyboard in Ubuntu 8.4, and although the bug
was reported months ago they still have not fixed it. This is despite
having sent at least three upgrades to "Evolution" (which I never use)
automatically, via an auto-upgrader which switches itself on
automatically, and then slows the computer to an unuseable crawl.

The "honyaku-linux" mailing list seems to be populated with Ubuntu
users. it might be worth listening in there if you don't already.

It's weird the way these Linux people keep breaking things. You "upgrade"
the OS thinking it will get better, and then things suddenly stop working
which were working before the "upgrade". It's more like a "downgrade" or
a "sidewaysgrade" really - just lots of people fiddling with stuff and
changing it around, not really improving anything.

I think you need to choose the distro that matches your philosophy. Some
people thrive on continual upgrades, and others (like me) are firmly
in the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school. That's one reason I have
stuck with RedHat/Fedora. I get a system, install everything I think I'm
going to need, and rarely if ever upgrade. I take the same approach with
Windows on the machine my wife uses. We just moved to XP after after
9 years of SE.

It's not the font I like, there is not even a way to choose which font is
used, and I'm getting these horrible mixes of messy Chinese fonts and so
on. This applies to every place where Japanese appears on the screen.
I've got all the fonts on the computer but I have no way to choose which
one it uses.

Lack of choice is odd. I have two sets ofJapanese fonts: the old BDFs
for kterm (I still use it as it works and it's like a comfortable old shoe)
and the modern ones for FF, Thunderbird, OO, etc. For the latter set I
think I can always choose the font.... yep, they all have font selection.
The terminal windows all allow font selection too.

--
Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学
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