https://www.google.com/get/noto/ looks like a pretty complete alternative (a bit too complete, we would need to select a subset of those probably).
On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.morta...@xwiki.com> wrote: > As indicated by the comment <auto-detect/> is here to load the system > fonts which we are not supposed to need by default since we embed GNU > FreeFont. > > It's not all "non-English" characters since it works fine for many of > them from what I see but I do reproduce the issue with Chinese > characters. > > And indeed according to > https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/FAQ.html, Freefont does not > support Chinese, Japanese, or Korean characters which is quite a > limitation by default. I'm not a big fan of enabling back > <auto-detect/> since it was taking a lot of memory when loading system > fonts (causing https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-13307) which where > totally useless for most of them. Ideally we should replace freefont > with a more complete font pack if anything like this exist in a > compatible license. > > In any case don't hesitate to create an issue on http://jira.xwiki.org > about that. > > On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Billtec <webmas...@billtec.cn> wrote: >> Hi all,I'm using the xwiki v9.1.2 and I found that when exporting a page to >> PDF, the non-English characters will be replaced by "#".I spent a lot of >> time searching in jira.xwiki.org and found that there's similar issues like >> XWIKI-4724 and XWIKI-1609. However, non of the solutions work on me.Finally >> I found this commit log in github - >> https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/437f28bee5545670b2478c93498f2f261a021aa5 >> and I manually create a fop-config.xml file in xwiki\WEB-INF\classes folder, >> with the "" not commented out. Then the problem solved.The question is that >> why in 2015 the dev team want to comment out the auto-detect propert and it >> seems that it results on the issue I mentioned above. Will it be fixed in >> next release?Regards,Bill >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Chinese-characters-will-be-replaced-by-when-exporting-a-page-to-PDF-tp7603012.html >> Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > -- > Thomas Mortagne -- Thomas Mortagne
