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feh doesn't display Chinese chars correctly
hi, when I use --draw-filename or %F, feh gives me a bunch of boxes for filenames with Chinese chars. same happens to Japanese chars, so maybe it's a general issue with unicode chars? anyone knows how to make it work? thanks.
Yeah you need a font that has the characters, e.g. feh -C /usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont -e unifont/12 --draw-filename ... renders for me (that's from ttf-unifont on Debian/Ubuntu/...; not the prettiest, but it at least works).
@Ferada
thanks. that worked. then hit another issue, which is the not-pretty part. how do I instruct feh to use two fonts? i.e., display with a primary font and only fall back to the secondary when the primary font doesn't have certain chars.
in my case, I have one font that I like its English chars and the other its Chinese chars. let's call them E.ttf and C.ttf for example. judging from the effects, I believe E.ttf doesn't have Chinese chars and that's why feh renders boxes with it, and C.ttf has both English and Chinese chars but I don't like its English chars. I am hoping for something like feh -C font/folder/ -e E.ttf/12 -e C.ttf/12 --draw-filename, but it looks like command will use the last -e flag, i.e., C.ttf/12, for everything.
on my terminal (terminator 1.91), if I just pick E.ttf, it is able to render CJK chars with some acceptable font (I don't know which font it's using for that). can feh do something similar?
As far as I know, no, taking a look at what the underlying library Imlib2 offers, it's simply one font selected, that's it. For the font selection mechanism you'd want, you'd need a library that e.g. uses fontconfig.