How to install Japanese font for cmatrix

Question

I want to use Japanese font in cmatrix, using the command

cmatrix -c

but the only thing I can see is a blank screen, so the characters aren't displayed correctly. How to install Japanese font?

Answer 1

I suggest you try out unimatrix instead of cmatrix.

Install with:

sudo curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/will8211/unimatrix/master/unimatrix.py -o /usr/local/bin/unimatrix
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/unimatrix

The default setting uses half-width katakana, and looks much like the original Matrix display.

unimatrix