[Nix-dev] Fonts

[Mateusz Kowalczyk]

On 06/10/2014 02:29 AM, Daniel Bergey wrote:
> A few weeks back I struggled with fonts, asked some questions on IRC,
> and wrote up what I learned on the wiki:
> 
> https://nixos.org/wiki/Fonts
> 
> I should add some notes on packaging fonts there, too.
> 
> I have no idea why Cantata and chromium aren't picking up fonts, though;
> I don't use either one.
> 
> cheers,
> bergey
> 

Ah, I wasn't sure whether I should be adding things to fonts.fonts,
clearly I am. I should have a go and getting some extra fonts and
putting them there to see if that works. Thank you for putting up the
wiki page.


If you guys have some knowledge that's not searchable on the web at the
moment then please do make wiki pages! It's frustrating to get stuck on
something and then asking on IRC for hours, waiting for mailing list
replies, source diving, …, knowing that *someone* already knows!

> On 2014-06-09 at 06:30, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In some applications (Cantata, chromium) I get squares instead of
>> Japanese characters. In others (emacs, urxvt, firefox, uzbl (ugly)) I
>> get actual characters.
>>
>> Does anyone know what I need to do to get Japanese to show up? In other
>> distros I would normally install every font available ever, run
>> fontconfig and hope for the best.
>>
>> Similarly, I was watching something with subtitles the other day and mpv
>> was struggling to find some fonts even though I seemed to have them in
>> ~/nix-profile/share/fonts/truetype . It might have needed some special
>> variety however so don't hold me on this one.
>>
>> What's the procedure of installing fonts? In my configuration.nix I have
>>
>>   fonts.enableCoreFonts = true;
>>   fonts.enableFontConfig = true;
>>   fonts.enableFontDir = true;
>>   fonts.enableGhostscriptFonts = true;
>>
>> I seem to get squares whether I have all of the above or none at all.
>>
>> I also was installing separate packages for fonts previously but it did
>> not seem to matter.
>>
>> I tried to find some info online on this but I was only ever able to
>> come across discussion whether unfree fonts should be included and
>> nothing else.
> 


-- 
Mateusz K.