GNOME 2.0 Desktop for the Solaris Operating Environment Troubleshooting Guide

10.4.2 Special Fonts Are Missing in Chinese Locales

Problem  

Bug ID 4821955, affects Traditional Chinese locales. 

You cannot see the characters displayed with some special fonts such as bold fonts. As a result, some characters in the Yelp window appear to be missing.  

Solution  

You must change the pangox.alias file in /etc/{zh_TW.EUC,zh_TW.BIG5,zh_TW.UTF-8,zh_HK.BIG5HK,zh_HK.UTF-8}. Perform the following steps:

  1. Log in as root.

  2. Change to the directory where thepangox.alias file is located for your locale. For example, for the zh_TW.BIG5 locale, run the following command:

    cd /etc/pango/zh_TW.BIG5

  3. Run the following command:

    cat pangox.alias | tr [A-Z] [a-z] > /tmp/pango

  4. Run the following command:

    mv /tmp/pango pangox.alias

  5. If the directory /etc/pango/sparcv9/pango is on your system, change the pangox.alias files. in the locale subdirectories in that directory, in the same way as for /etc/pango.