More grief with Chinese characters :(

[Conrad Newton]

>From Gabriel Dragffy on Sunday, 2006-05-28 at 14:17:28 +0800:
> Hi, I've been battling on with Breezy hoping that the lack of SKIM and it's 
> problem with displaying Chinese would be fixed in Dapper. I'm running dapper 
> now and am pleased that at least SKIM is present.
> 
> However all chinese webpages and most KDE apps display only half of the 
> Chinese characters properly, the other half are replaced by dots. The ones 
> that are displayed are the correct characters.
> 
> If I bootup into a Knoppix Live CD and do the same thigs the Chinese is 
> displayed flawlessly. I looked at the KDE settings for fonts and languages in 
> Knoppix and adjusted the settings in Dapper to reflect the Knoppix one but 
> this didn't change anything.
> 
> Another annoying thing is that the Chinese characters look blurred and unclear 
> in Dapper, under Knoppix they are very sharp and clear. I find it difficult 
> to convey this problem clearly so I took a screen shot of a Chinese website, 
> displayed under Knoppix 4:
> http://wheresgabe.frih.net/backup/images/baidu-jay-knoppix4.png
> 
> And the same page displayed under Dapper:
> http://wheresgabe.frih.net/backup/images/baidu-jay-dapper2.png
> 
> Under Dapper I even set the default language to Chinese and this altered the 
> Konqueror menus and even these don't display properly. At the moment I must 
> still reboot in to windows to use Chinese properly, even when I type using 
> SKIM most of the characters are missing. What's wrong with Kubuntu 
> Breezy/Dapper?

If you have Firefox installed on your Kubuntu/Dapper, you will see that
it does *not* have the same problems.  So far as I can see, all the
fonts are displayed.  So this looks like a KDE problem -- a really
irritating one, I agree.

Conrad