Bug#904807: josm: chinese fonts in editor

[Bas Couwenberg]

On 2018-08-15 11:30, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> 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.

No, I have none of those packages installed on my systems and they 
display the chinese characters correctly with just fonts-noto-cjk 
installed.

Kind Regards,

Bas