Japanese Support on Fedora Core 2

[Scott A Phipps]

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 13:35, Clint Harshaw wrote:
> Raymond C. Rodgers wrote:
> > About a month ago, I installed FC2 over my RedHat 9 installation, and
> > discovered that both Mozilla and Firefox crashed right away when viewing
> > one of my favorite sites (http://www.megatokyo.com ) I didn't figure out
> > what was causing this crash until now: the Japanese character support.
> > 
> > While I was attempting to get a machine translation of something from
> > English to Japanese via various web sites, I noticed that Mozilla 1.7.2
> > and Firefox 0.9 were continuing to crash and only when I visited a site
> > that had Japanese characters. As a test, I requested
> > http://www.nec.co.jp and watched Mozilla crash immediately. Is there a
> > problem with the support for the language in FC2 or when migrating from
> > RH9?
> 

If I remember correctly, this was caused by the font cache containing
fonts that were replaced in fedora.  You might try deleting the font
caches and see if that fixes the problem.