Bug#904807: josm: chinese fonts in editor

[Ralf Treinen]

Hello again,

On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 10:15:30AM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> notfound 904807 josm/0.0.svn14026+dfsg-1
> thanks
> 
> Hi Ralf,
> 
> On 07/28/2018 09:20 AM, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> > Chinese characters are for me not usable in josm, they appear just
> > as a box. I suppose that these are traditional chinese characters
> > since I try to edit a map in Taiwan. For instance, the name
> > of the object 
> > 
> > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/340655083
> > 
> > appears for me in josm, both in the map pane and in the editor windows,
> > only as boxes. However, the selector tool for downloading a portion
> > of a map indicates the names in chinese characters, as does the map
> > rendering in firefox. I basically know nothing about CJK stuff so I
> > just installed task-chinese-t but this didn't help.
> 
> Looks like you don't have Recommends installed by default.
> 
> fonts-noto-cjk provides the fonts for the Chinese characters, and should
> be installed via the fonts-noto dependency (fonts-noto Recommends
> fonts-noto-cjk).

after returning home I could compare the font packages installed on my
desktop machine with my laptop. It turned out that I did not have the arphic
fonts installed, after installing these four on my laptop josm displayed
correctly the chinese characters:

ii  fonts-arphic-bkai00mp
ii  fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp
ii  fonts-arphic-gbsn00lp
ii  fonts-arphic-gkai00mp

I didn't attempt to find the mininal set of packages required. Maybe
these or some of these should be added as Depends/Recommends/Suggests.

Thanks -Ralf.