More grief with Chinese characters :(

[Gabriel Dragffy]

Right, firefox doesn't suffer from this. But when I do everything from 
Konqueror it's a ral pain to have to open up Firefox just to see some 
webpages. This problem was present in Breezy with KDE 3.4 and 3.5.1/2. But as 
I said Knoppix 4 which is based on KDE 3.4 I think works absolutely perfectly 
with all the default language setting set to English! I can only assume it's 
a config problem in Ubuntu but I don't know where to look.

On Monday 29 May 2006 01:56, Conrad Newton wrote:
> >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