[CentOS] No Chinese character set in Firefox
Robert
kerplop at sbcglobal.net
Sun Oct 3 20:09:21 UTC 2010
On 10/03/2010 01:53 PM, Keith Roberts informed us:
> On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Frank Cox wrote:
>
>
>> To: CentOS mailing list<centos at centos.org>
>> From: Frank Cox<theatre at sasktel.net>
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] No Chinese character set in Firefox
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 18:28 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote:
>>
>>> I'm running Centos 5.5 and have recently lost my chines
>>> characters in Firefox.
>>>
>>> Just get a lot of wierd looking boxex now, look like
>>> dominos.
>>>
>> Firefox used to come with a bazillion language packs included in the
>> firefox rpm.
>>
>> Now those language packs are not included any more.
>>
>> You can download them from the mozilla website if you need them.
>>
> I've visited the Mozilla site, but cannot find the Chinese
> language pack to install it :(
>
> Regards,
>
> Keith
>
I just now entered the command:
# yum install "@Chinese Support"
and was greeted with this list of crap:
Dependencies Resolved
=================================================================================================================
Package Arch
Version Repository Size
=================================================================================================================
Installing:
Deployment_Guide-zh-CN noarch
5.2-11.el5.centos base 2.2 M
Deployment_Guide-zh-TW noarch
5.2-11.el5.centos base 2.9 M
fonts-chinese noarch
3.02-12.el5 base 24 M
kde-i18n-Chinese noarch
1:3.5.4-1 base 2.1 M
kde-i18n-Chinese-Big5 noarch
1:3.5.4-1 base 2.2 M
lv i386
4.51-8.1 base 423 k
openoffice.org-langpack-zh_CN i386
1:3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.1 updates 15 M
openoffice.org-langpack-zh_TW i386
1:3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.1 updates 16 M
scim-bridge-gtk i386
0.4.5-9.el5 base 37 k
scim-chewing i386
0.3.1-11.el5 base 62 k
scim-chinese-standard i386
0.0.2-1.el5 base 87 k
scim-pinyin i386
0.5.91-16.el5 base 2.3 M
scim-qtimm i386
0.9.4-5 base 63 k
scim-tables-chinese i386
0.5.6-7 base 6.2 M
stardict i386
2.4.5-5 base 833 k
Installing for dependencies:
libchewing i386
0.3.0-8.el5 base 2.8 M
scim i386
1.4.4-41.el5 base 517 k
scim-bridge i386
0.4.5-9.el5 base 109 k
scim-libs i386
1.4.4-41.el5 base 453 k
scim-tables i386
0.5.6-7 base 346 k
Transaction Summary
=================================================================================================================
Install 20 Package(s)
Upgrade 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 79 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user Command
Complete!
...which I'm not too interested in installing on top of all the other
useless stuff I have. BUT it seems like this might be worth a try if I
was interested in readin', writin' and cipherin' in Chinese.
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