Japanese font of reports on Mac OS X

[Masao Uebayashi]

Japanese chars (account names) in reports can be displayed with "Ariel
Unicode MS" set in Edit -> Style Sheets -> Default -> Fonts -> Account
Link.  I guess there is some missing encoding conversion in one of
callsites to WebKit?

Masao

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:40 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 16, 2012, at 3:46 AM, Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I can display Japanese on the "Accounts" window by adding a line to pango.alias:
>>>
>>>> "Lucida Grande" = "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro"
>>>
>>> But I can't display Japanese on reports - all Japanese characters are
>>> displayed as Tofus.  These are also displayed normally when exported
>>> as HTML.
>
> * It was only that browser is so smart that it can display Japanese
> without decent CSS.
>
> * I changed fonts at Edit -> Style Sheets -> Default -> Fonts.
> Confirmed that the new setting is reflected in the exported HTML.
> Webkit can't display characters properly yet, but at least it seems to
> try so - I see different sizes of Tofu chars.
>
>> This is a user question, and belongs on the user list, not the developer list. I've cc'd this reply there, but you'll need to subscribe if you haven't already.
>>
>> Reports are displayed using a built-in version of Webkit, so Pango isn't involved. I'll have to research a bit to see how to change fonts there.
>>
>> Rather than setting a pango alias it would probably be cleaner to set your default font in Resources/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc (you'll have to add the file).
>
> Tried some random examples found on the web, got no noticable changes.
>
> Masao
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>