No indication as to what fonts are needed to get the "-c" flag working.

[DangerouslyGoodIdeas]

The "man" pages "--help" and "info" pages give no indication as to what font is needed to get the Japanese characters feature working.

To Reproduce
cmatrix --help
man cmatrix
info cmatrix

Expected behavior
Same commands in each section.
An explanation of what font is needed to get the feature working.
Also information on where to install the font. "/usr/share/fonts", "/usr/local/share/fonts", and "~/.fonts" are all valid.

System
Linux, 6.8.0-52-generic, Kubuntu

Additional context
I found many fonts using "apt-cache search japanese | grep fonts" and simply don't know what one to choose.

Maybe an interactive menu could install the font automatically?

[DangerouslyGoodIdeas]

ok just looked at the new man page and the "-c" command is different to my --help. But it does just print shadows...

New man page
"\-c" Only print the shadows of letters

my --help flag

-c: Use Japanese characters as seen in the original matrix. Requires appropriate fonts

[amnesia0287]

I'm pretty sure there is a bug with how its applying ascii color to the Japanese fonts, because in terminal on mac, if I disable ascii colors with -c, I get this:

With it enabled it looks like this:

There is no reason the grey boxes would be all this random different characters.

The problem is if I switch to like Noto Sans JP I get the same behavior, so its not mapping the characters correctly for whatever reason.

But the characters definitely work, and yeah I get the same help output as you:

[concussious]

If you figure it out, post it here and I'll put it in the manual draft at #186