Last modified: 2007-04-18 22:08:08 UTC
Hello, It appears that SVGs with CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) text are not being rendered correctly. I couldn't find a single SVG that rendered correctly. These ones, for example, don't render correctly: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Fonts_%28ja%29.svg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:MechatronicsDiagram_%28ja%29.svg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Solar_eclipse_%28ja%29.svg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Ant_worker_morphology_%28ja%29.svg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Male_reproductive_system_zh-tw.svg The few that I could find that did render correctly ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Chromosome_zh.svg ) had had the text converted to paths, which is rather undesirable. For Korean fonts, a user suggested one of these: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-unfonts http://kldp.net/projects/unfonts/ Firefox 1.5.0.8 also failed to render these images correctly, but I was able to see the CJK text by downloading the files and using EyeOfGNOME (eog) to view them.
Some Japanese fonts: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-sazanami-gothic http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-sazanami-mincho http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-kochi-gothic http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-kochi-mincho Some Chinese fonts: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-arphic-ukai http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-arphic-uming
Testcase using batang/gulim and Un Fonts: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Fonts_%28ko%29.svg
Could this be related to bug 5694?
Isn't the issue just that the WMF doesn't have a decent set of fonts installed? I could've sworn there was a bug for that.
(In reply to comment #4) > Isn't the issue just that the WMF doesn't have a decent set of fonts installed? I could've sworn > there was a bug for that. [Bugzilla:3769]]: "Fonts are off in rasterized SVG images on wikimedia sites" ? If that's the one you mean, it needs a better name. The fonts are not off; they don't exist.
I have installed the fonts-chinese, fonts-japanese and fonts-korean packages from FC4, plus others for other languages. This closes the issue for now as far as I'm concerned. For Japanese text the most common fallback is the Kochi Gothic substitute from http://sourceforge.jp/projects/efont , which is now being used for all fonts on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Fonts_(ja).svg except "serif". With a bit of effort you can get it to use the Kochi Mincho substitute font, e.g. http://noc.wikimedia.org/~tstarling/svg/Fonts_ja_linux.png which is from http://noc.wikimedia.org/~tstarling/svg/Fonts_ja_linux.svg Use action=purge on the image description page, plus a hard refresh or two, to get the SVGs to re-render.
