<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.10.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> I am running Gnome dapper with en_GB-UTF8 locale. I regularly use Chinese input and read Chinese. I have the Chinese language pack installed under ADMINISTRATION --> LANGUAGE SUPPORT. My system is nothing special and I have nothing extra installed above the defaults. A search for fontconfig in synaptic gave me the following: generic font configuration library Fontconfig is a font configuration and customization library, which does not depend on the X Window System. It is designed to locate fonts within the system and select them according to requirements specified by applications. Chinese characters are not rendered correctly until I run the command: sudo fontconfig-voodoo -s zh_CN --force After logging in and out again - problem solved. This is also the fix needed to get fonts going under KDE. It allows all Chinese characters to be displayed AND prevents them from being heavily anti-aliased. I hope you can find what I mention if I can assist you further please let me know. I have to say I got all of this help and tips from #ubuntu-cn. Regards, Gabriel On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 08:44 +0100, linuxa wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Hi Gabriel, thanks for the feedback. I don't seem to have fontconfig-voodoo installed on my computer, can't seem to find in adept either. I did try running dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig But failed to see any options to do with the voodoo. Could this be a graphics card specific command (I'm thinking of the Voodoo class of graphics cards). Also, can you tell me what environment you are running under. e.g. KDE, default language: English... Cheers. -- linuxa </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>