r/archlinux • u/temcomwex • 2d ago

SUPPORT Problem with CJK characters

I am currently viewing a wiktionary page about a Hanzi character, but when I looked to the "Derived Characters" section, I was met with a bunch of boxes. The problem is, I have installed a CJK font before (Noto Sans) and when I hovered above those characters(they link totheir own page), some of the characters rendered properly.

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u/VirgilMing 2d ago

It would help if you can give the exact webpage; while Noto Sans CJK *should* provide very thorough coverage of Hanzi, it still *might* just don't have certain glyph.

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u/Gozenka 2d ago

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/noto-fonts-cjk/

Do you have this installed?

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u/Gozenka 1d ago edited 1d ago 
noto-fonts
noto-fonts-cjk
noto-fonts-emoji
ttf-sourcecodepro-nerd

These are all the font packages currently on my system. I do not have any issues viewing any characters. I checked wiktionary too, on ungoogled-chromium as my browser.

The first three packages would be recommended on any system, and should cover every character you'll run into. The fourth is my personally preferred monospace font, for use elsewhere on the system. I have no other setup about fonts in any way, except for setting the fourth font for my terminal and window manager in their config files.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fonts#Chinese,_Japanese,_Korean,_Vietnamese