[kde-linux] Problems with some Chinese characters

[Ed Greshko]

James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 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.

Thanks....  Will do...


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