[kde-linux] Problems with some Chinese characters

[James Richard Tyrer]

James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> In konsole and other kde applications some problems with certain Chinese
>> characters seems to have crept in when running with LANG=en_US.UTF-8.
>>
>> Using 钉 as an example...
>>
>> In konsole on RHELv4 (konsole 1.4.1) 钉 can only be displayed when the
>> Large or Huge fonts are selected or if certain custom fonts/sizes are
>> selected.  Not ideal...but workable.
>>
>> In konsole of Fedora C5 I could not find any combination of settings,
>> short of changing my LANG settings, to display 钉 and other characters.
>>
>> The same holds true for the konsole supplied in SuSE 10.  I can't boot
>> that system at the moment so I don't know the versions.
>>
>> Does anyone know what the problems are?  Are they distribution related
>> or....?
>>
>> FWIW, the application "mlterm" (multilingual terminal) works find under
>> KDE as well as gnome-terminal under both gnome and KDE.
> 
> Konsole needs some work in this regard (UniCode) even though Qt supports 
> UniCode.  There is also a small bug in Qt that it will not search other 
> fonts if a character isn't in the current font.  This is fixed in Qt-4 
> (IIUC) but will never be fixed in Qt-3.  So, a necessary condition is 
> that you use a font that contains the UniCode characters which you want 
> to use.  I confirmed that Courier New contains the glyph in question and 
> started Konsole with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and paste didn't work although it 
> works fine in KWrite.  So, I conclude that this is a bug in Konsole -- 
> poor UTF-8 support.  Please check the bug database and report it if it 
> isn't there.
> 
> I can't get this to work with gnome-terminal but I don't have the Locale 
> support in my C library.  So, make sure that you do have the support for 
> that locale.

So, I installed the GLibc Locales (which takes a while from source) and 
tried this with Gnome-Terminal and Konsole again.  You are correct, it 
works in Gnome-Terminal but not in Konsole.  So, I would say that this 
is a bug which should be reported.

-- 
JRT