installing traditional Chinese font
 

I've followed the directions of the threads here to install Chinese fonts. Now I can see simplified Chinese. However, when the browser displays traditional Chinese, many characters are missing.

I would appreciate help on how to install traditional Chinese font..

Re: installing traditional Chinese font
 

have you ever tried to install maemo traditional chinese support via application manager?or,you can copy the traditional chinese font from your computer to your NIT and install it just like the way you installled simplified chinese font.

Re: installing traditional Chinese font
 

If you have a computer with XP, copy arialuni.ttf to the NIT and remove your simplified Chinese font.. It is the only font you will need for almost all languages. And it looks great!

Re: installing traditional Chinese font
 

<quote>have you ever tried to install maemo traditional chinese support via application manager?or,you can copy the traditional chinese font from your computer to your NIT and install it just like the way you installled simplified chinese font.
<end quote>

Thanks. I just downloaded the traditional Chinese from this link

http://maemocjk.garage.maemo.org/os2008.html

and tried to install it. I got this msg

"unable to install maemo-chinese-traditional-support-chinook"

In my application manager, it says this package has "broken" status.

Not familiar with Linux. I don't know how to troubleshoot further.

Help please...

Re: installing traditional Chinese font
 

This was the first thing I did. Took me a while to copy it to /usr/share/fonts directory. After that, I could only read simplified Chinese and not traditional Chinese.

How do I remove the simplified chinese font?

Re: installing traditional Chinese font
 

cd /usr/share/fonts
rm arialuni.ttf

just get a pure tc font like mingliu.ttf, no need to waste space with character sets you can't read anyway. You can also try the FireFly font which is opensource and optimized for embedded systems.

Re: installing traditional Chinese font
 

well,just replace(overwrite) the SC font with a TC font(with the same file name in the same folder).

Re: installing traditional Chinese font
 

Thank you all for the responses. I'm new to Linux and therefore I will appreciate it if you can give me specific instructions such as what program, where to find it, or what commands to execute. Otherwise, I'm lost.

Re: installing traditional Chinese font
 

Download the firefly...tar.gz file on your desktop, extract it and copy the fireflysung.ttf file to your device, i suggest the external memory card so the command below works. Open xterm on the device and type in:

mkdir ~/.fonts
mv /media/mmc1/fireflysung.ttf ~/.fonts

Start the browser, it should support t-chinese now, if not undo any previous experiments with other fonts

Re: installing traditional Chinese font
 

Just an addtion.
If you are not so familiar with linux command,I would advice that you install "open ssh server" on your NIT,then log into your NIT from your computer with a program named "WinSCP".
With WinSCP,all the file manage job such as transfer(even between PC and NIT) and copy、move can be done under a explorer like interface.Sooner or later,you will find this program tp be so useful.

Re: installing traditional Chinese font
 

>>no need to waste space with character sets you can't read anyway<<

True. But if you also read Japanese (I do), then arialuni is the most elegant solution. For some reason Chinese and Japanese fonts do not play nice to each other. When I was still using n770, I found only one combination that would work, and even then the Japanese looked funny.

Re: installing traditional Chinese font
 

WinSCP sounds great. I installed ssh server in tablet and WinSCP in PC. But I need your help.. Where do I obtain host name, user name, password and keyfile? These are what WinSCP asks.

Re: installing traditional Chinese font
 

I've uninstalled all the font packages I installed with success or without success. I've deleted the arialuni.ttf from /usr/share/fonts. Now it only has fireflysung.ttf, based on your instruction. Now the webpage with traditional Chinese don't display much of anything, while it could display about 50% of characters.

I hope linux can be a little easier for newbies...

Re: installing traditional Chinese font
 

The host name is just the ip address of your NIT which can be easily found with the connection manager.The user name is “root”.When the open ssh server is installed on your NIT,it will ask you to change the password for “root”,that’s also the password for WinSCP.key file?In fact,that's not a requirement for winscp.

Re: installing traditional Chinese font
 

Thanks, now I have winSCP up and running. It's great that I can manipulate files using my laptop now.