Japanese kanji and java

noathustra · Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 2:30 pm Post subject: Japanese kanji and java

I am using blackdown 1.4.1 jdk/jre. I have installed every Japanese related font in portage. I have installed the MS mincho and MS gothic fonts. But I don't see kanji in Java applets. For example, the following website only shows me boxes: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ik2r-myr/kanji/kanji1a.htm

from research on the web I guess taht I need to edit one of the font.properties files under /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/jre/lib/

I also believe that xlsfonts should show me Ricoh fonts, which correspond to the MS Japanese fonts. This doesn't happen.

People must be able to get Japanese working in Java applets. Please tell me how.

fuqnbastard · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 46

I too, cannot for the life of me get java to display kanji.

i'm using blackdown-jdk 1.4.2_rc1-r1

I installed mikachan-font, I installed the fonts wadalab-gothic.ttf and watanabe-mincho.ttf from the debian packages. I have Arial Unicode MS installed.

I tried calling the application (jgloss) like this:

hiroki · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 7:50 pm Post subject:

hmm.. and /me is confused because he could see japanese characters in java-apps before, but now doesn't see them anymore, only boxes. maybe /me should just redo the steps in order to see japanese in java-apps. but /me does not find the "howto" he used before

torklingberg · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 May 2004 Posts: 86

slag · n00b Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 30

Same situation. No idea as to a solution.

I'm using the masked (very much so!) JDK 1.5 (need it for Data Structures class,) so I really didn't expect everything to work perfectly. It would be nice to fix, though.

frostschutz · Advocate Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 2977 Location: Germany

There are some how-tos on the net that involve downloading another really big font (cyberbit) and modifying the font.properties.[ja] and font.dir files. I followed that tutorial, however it did not solve the problem: Now the empty boxes are gone, and there are just no chars visible instead...

The tutorial is located here, maybe one of you has more luck with it:
http://senseis.xmp.net/?AsianFontsJava
(You have to scroll down to the linux section, beginning of the tutorial is for windows and mac)

All other applications (Firefox et cetera) show japanese and alien characters just fine. :-(

Does switching from Blackdown to Sun Java help?

frostschutz · Advocate Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 2977 Location: Germany

Yay, it works!

WARNING: The following solution is considered a really bad hack:

Copy Cyberbits.ttf (download from tutorial above) to /opt/blackdown-jdk*/jre/lib/fonts/
You may use any other TTF font that supports the characters you need instead.

Execute the following: