Bug 138496

Summary:	Chinese character display doesn't work well
Product:	[Applications] konqueror	Reporter:	Patrick <mail>
Component:	khtml	Assignee:	Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Patrick 2006-12-07 12:43:24 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

As you can see on this screenshot:

http://p173.de/s/1165490235.png

Firefox does a much better job in displaying chinese websites. Even when I set a unicode font as the default font in Konqueror, or even in KDE, I can't get those chinese characters that are shown as a dot to work. I'm not sure where the problem is... I guess Konqueror sticks to the specified font by the website (Arial, in this case), although that font doesn't have all characters that are needed. Firefox (and other browsers) seem to recognise that the font isn't suitable and switch to Arial Unicode or some other font that has all needed characters.

Comment 1 Tommi Tervo 2006-12-07 13:00:25 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47682 ***

Comment 2 Patrick 2006-12-07 13:46:31 UTC

Thanks for the hint - but I'm not sure if this is really the same problem... Anyway, I'll wait for QT4  (as long as it may take :( ) and hope that it will be fixed there.

Comment 3 Patrick 2007-05-05 06:51:21 UTC

This is not a KDE issue. Font substitutions are QTs job, they can be specified through qtconfig.