Some Japanese Kanji displaying as blocks

[Bluebris]

I have a problem with some Kanji displaying as blocks.
I searched the internet and found a recommended font, Cyberbit.ttf,
but i have no idea
how to add the font to Mnemosyne to see if it works.

Can anyone help? I searched the board but couldn't find this issue
before.

[Charles Cave]

If you are going to use a new font, then all you have to do is
install the font then choose the Mnemosyne > Configure
option then click the Q/A font and choose your new font.

Are you using Windows? I use MS Gothic 24 point font
and it displays Kanji very well.

Charles

[Bluebris]

I'm using Linux Ubuntu 9.04.
thanks for your help, but what i don't know is how to install the new
font. Sorry, i should have made that clear in my initial post.

Brian

[Peter Bienstman]

I have ubuntu, but I don't anything about Japanese myself.

Still, if you do

sudo apt-cache search japanese | grep font

you get a list of several fonts that would fit the bill. Don't know which one
is best though.

You can install it with

sudo apt-get install <package-name>

Cheers,

Peter

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[Bluebris]

My fonts all work fine in Japanese for other applications, they just
don't for mnemosyne, for some kanji, so i want to know
how to install a font to the application itself. I've seen through a
google search other users with the same
issue in this app, and the recommendation was to install this
cyberbit.ttf font, which i downloaded and now
have sitting on my desktop. I want to install it so i can use it in
Mnemosyne. Any ideas how to do this?

> email: Peter.Bienst...@UGent.be
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[Bluebris]

It's ok, i've sorted it. I downloaded the font, then did the
following:

sudo cp *.ttf /usr/local/share/fonts
cd /usr/local/share/fonts
sudo chown root:root *.ttf
sudo fc-cache

The font then showed in Mnemosyne.

Thanks for your help guys,

Brian

[Randi H.]

Search for installing fonts in Ubuntu... I don't remember exactly how it is done :) but you will just have to install it as any other to Ubuntu and then go to settings of Mnemosyne and choose the new font.

2009/8/24 Bluebris <brian...@gmail.com>