Rendering of asian fonts

[latouche]

Asian fonts are not rendered on the map but they are shown in popup menus (using an OSM map) It's the case for Chinese and Japonese names. I suppose it would be the same for Korean but I didn't find any name in Korean.

[latouche]

Screenshot of Tokyo showing the rendering issue

[KaZeR]

do asian names render well in other gtk-based apps?

[anonymous]

Replying to KaZeR:

do asian names render well in other gtk-based apps?

Yes, no problem with that. I have all my fonts well configured to display asian text.

[latouche]

I've tested to specify a font for the layout. I tested different asian fonts. Most of the fonts are not really usable by default with Linux. They can be read but the rendering is not great... So it is the same for Navit. The best font I know is WenQuanYi? Bitmap Song and when used with navit, the result is really ugly ... - it is the same for others (文鼎PL細上海宋Uni for exemple)

My system is using fontconfig with select the "best" font to use, but I suppose that the map and gui_internal don't rely on fontconfig. For my terminal (urxvt), I use "xft:terminus,xft:WenQuanYi Bitmap Song" to have both european and asian fonts well rendered. Hope it will give ideas to navit dev :)

[latouche]

Map with font="AR PL SungtiL GB"

[latouche]

Map with font="WenQuanYi? Bitmap Song"

[latouche]

Menu with font="WenQuanYi? Bitmap Song"

[kazer]

Is this issue still valid? We have now a bunch of asian translations and never heard of this anymore.

[latouche]

Replying to kazer:

Is this issue still valid? We have now a bunch of asian translations and never heard of this anymore.

If I set an asian font (文泉驛等寬正黑 for example), it is now readable. So we can say that it works even if using the system fonts via fontconfig (for the map layer and gui=internal) could be better

[kazer]

Ok, so i'll close the ticket for now.