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Re: title bar can't show chinese

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On 17/09/2020 10:16, Long Wind wrote:
> firefox can show chinese page except in title bar(though in each tab's window, title is correctly shown)
> i use twm and below is option in /etc/X11/twm/system.twmrc
> TitleFont "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> i delete line above, it doesn't help
> both stretch and buster have this problem

twm is ancient, so you have to specify an X11 bitmap font with Chinese 
language support. Consider using a window manager with scalable font 
support (this is what Firefox uses to draw its content). Xfce is a 
popular and lightweight choice. But twm can be made to work:

I copied the system twmrc to ~/.twmrc and edited the TitleFont line to:

TitleFont "hanzigb16fs"

and then restarted twm. The Firefox window title was then displayed in 
Chinese for a Chinese language page. In fact, all window titles were 
displayed in Chinese.

Tested with debian-live-10.3.0-amd64-xfce.iso under QEMU with locale 
zh_CN.UTF-8 set with "dpgk-reconfigure locales" and twm manually installed.

Here are a few Chinese bitmap fonts installed by default:

$ xlsfonts | grep gb2312
-isas-fangsong ti-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-gb2312.1980-0
-isas-fangsong ti-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-160-gb2312.1980-0
-isas-song ti-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-gb2312.1980-0
-isas-song ti-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-160-gb2312.1980-0
-isas-song ti-medium-r-normal--24-240-72-72-c-240-gb2312.1980-0

These three are aliases for the three fonts above without --0-0 in their 
names

$ xlsfonts | grep hanzigb
hanzigb16fs
hanzigb16st
hanzigb24st

Kind regards,

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

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title bar can't show chinese Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-17 00:20 +0200
  Re: title bar can't show chinese David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-17 02:40 +0200
    Re: title bar can't show chinese Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-17 03:10 +0200
      Re: title bar can't show chinese riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com> - 2020-09-17 03:20 +0200
      Re: title bar can't show chinese David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-17 03:30 +0200
        Re: title bar can't show chinese Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-17 06:20 +0200
  Re: title bar can't show chinese Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2020-09-17 03:20 +0200
    Re: title bar can't show chinese Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-17 04:10 +0200

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