[Bug 1334495] Re: Two different fonts mixed to display Chinese text in all desktop applications

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Thanks for your report. I'm not sure about the affected packages, so
let's wait with changing that.

The first thing I would like you to do to sort things out is to get a
pure German locale. I'm not a Kubuntu user, and can't tell how you would
do it via the GUI, but probably you can fix it by editing the
/etc/default/locale file manually. Can you please edit that file so it
only contains the line

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8

Then relogin and run the locale command. If the Chinese entries are now
gone, please let us know if it made a difference as regards the mixed
fonts.

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Two different fonts mixed to display Chinese text in all desktop
  applications

Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Bug:
  In all desktop applications, two different fonts are mixed to display Chinese text. I attached a screenshot of a paragraph of Chinese text in Kmail - some characters are displayed using a "italic" font, others in a "normal" font. The same problem exists in other applications, for example Dolphin or even Konsole. In Xterm, only the "normal" characters are displayed, where Dolphin displays italic characters Xterm leaves a white space. Websites are displayed fine, if I open the same mail in the web interface only one font is used.

  Background

  I' am using Kubuntu 14.04 with the language set to German in KDE settings.
  The output of "locale" looks a bit messed up, I don't know why, as in the KDE settings all formats are consistently set to German standard. 
  "locale                                                                                                         
  LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
  LANGUAGE=de:en:zh:en
  LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_NUMERIC=zh_CN.UTF-8
  LC_TIME=zh_CN.UTF-8
  LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_MONETARY=zh_CN.UTF-8
  LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_PAPER=zh_CN.UTF-8
  LC_NAME=zh_CN.UTF-8
  LC_ADDRESS=zh_CN.UTF-8
  LC_TELEPHONE=zh_CN.UTF-8
  LC_MEASUREMENT=zh_CN.UTF-8
  LC_IDENTIFICATION=zh_CN.UTF-8
  LC_ALL=
  "

  fc-match:                                                                                                   
  »DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"«

  
  This is my first bug filed at launchpad. I filed it for language-selector as other related bugs I found were filed for the same package. If it isn't language-selector, perhaps you can point me to the right package?

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