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Help:Multilingual support (East Asian)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Throughout Wikipedia, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Korean characters are used in relevant articles. Computers with older operating systems with the default language set to English or other Western or Cyrillic language settings will require some setup to be able to display the characters. Newer computer operating systems do not require any additional steps to view languages other than English.
Check for existing supportIf you see boxes, question marks, or meaningless letters mixing into the first part, you do not have support for East Asian characters. Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Vietnamese
InstructionsWindows 95, 98, ME and NTIn order to display Asian characters in your browser, download and install the Microsoft Global Input Method Editors (IMEs) of the language(s) that you need (make sure to select "with Language Pack"). This is the system extension that provides the language support to your English Windows system when you are using Internet Explorer. Select the "with language pack" option if you do not have any related character set on your machine. The IMEs allow you to input CJK, while the language pack is the character set that you need to display the particular language. If you are an Office XP user, the Global IMEs will not work for you; you will need to install a new version of the IMEs for Office XP users. Sometimes the system offers to download Asian fonts by default while viewing pages in those languages. [1] Otherwise, update your system manually with these language support packs. Windows 2000Windows XP and Server 2003Windows XP and Server 2003 include native support for East Asian languages. To install the files, check the Install files for East Asian languages in the Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Languages. Note that a minimum of 230 MB of disk space is required and that the Windows CD-ROM is needed while installing support for East Asian languages using this method. (Non-East Asian localizations only) Alternatively, you can use the installation packages intended for 98/NT by following these links: No disc is needed for this option. Windows Vista and 7Windows Vista and Windows 7 include support for East Asian characters in the standard installation. However, the procedure explained on Microsoft's support page does not work in 7 for the Japanese font set, as it did with Vista. Mac OS XAll recent versions of OS X (10.4+) support East Asian characters natively. In very old versions of OS X, such as 10.1 you had to install Languages Kits from Apple in order to read Chinese, Japanese or Korean on the Internet. The Language Kit for CJK contains WorldScript software known as scripts which support the encoding for the character set of a particular language. Each language needs a separate script. In more recent versions of OS X, it is included with all installations of OS X. Once you have installed the Language Kit, just select the particular language character set that you need to see on the Internet page either from View > Encoding (for Microsoft IE) or View > Character set (for Netscape). GNOMEGNOME supports East Asian characters natively. You may need to install appropriate fonts. KDEKDE supports East Asian characters natively. You may need to install the following packages:
If this does not help, or works partially, but some characters are still missing, you may need to run qtconfig, and add a comprehensive unicode font to your chosen browser font's substitutions. Debian-based GNU/LinuxIn order to display Chinese, Japanese and/or Korean characters, you must install some font packages:
There are some alternative packages for some languages, but the ones listed above do work. Fedora LinuxInstall the appropriate ttfonts packages. For Fedora Core 3, the packages are ttfonts-zh_TW (traditional Chinese), ttfonts-zh_CN (simplified Chinese), ttfonts-ja (Japanese) and ttfonts-ko (Korean). E.g. 'yum install ttfonts-ko' For Fedora 4-7, the packages are fonts-japanese, fonts-chinese, and fonts-korean. The command to download and install these fonts is yum install fonts-japanese fonts-chinese fonts-korean Gentoo LinuxEnabling the cjk (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) USE flag improves East Asian support in some packages, but is not essential. Some useful font packages are (category media-fonts) arphicfonts (han), baekmuk-fonts (hangul) and kochi-substitute (hirigana/katakana). e.g. for viewing Chinese text: # emerge arphicfonts FreeBSDCJK fonts can be installed on FreeBSD using freebsd ports collection: # cd /usr/ports/x11-fonts/cyberbit-ttfonts; make install clean # cd /usr/ports/japanese/font-kochi; make install clean or by installing precompiled packages: # pkg_add -r ja-kochi-ttfonts NetBSDOn NetBSD and other systems using pkgsrc, one can install CJK fonts with the following commands: # cd /usr/pkgsrc/fonts/kochi-ttf && make install clean # cd /usr/pkgsrc/fonts/cyberbit-ttf && make install clean Other UNIX DistributionsDownload the appropriate .ttf file (for example, kochi-gothic-subst.ttf) and copy it to your system's TrueType font directory (for example, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/). For example (for Dejavu fonts): wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dejavu/dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.29.tar.bz2 (or get the link to the current version here, and then update this help) Then run (as root): fc-cache /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ Restart X if it is in use, and the new font should be installed. Unicode Fonts
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