Bug 148045

Summary: Unicode in Chinese characters are displayed as squares instead of the corresponding Chinese characters
Product: [I don't know] kde Reporter: Swee Tuck Woo <woost2>
Component: generalAssignee: Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal CC: 1040934050, adaptee, nvdilinli521, zahl
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 3.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Swee Tuck Woo 2007-07-20 06:32:30 UTC 
Version:           k3b 0.12.17 (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs
OS:                Linux

Unicode in Chinese characters are displayed as squares instead of the corresponding Chinese characters.

It is a problem related to KDE because all Chinese characters are displayed correctly under GNOME environment.

However, when using k3b under gnome, it looks to KDE for Chines characters & it failed to recognise them.

The problem seemed to be also link to the KDE distributed by Fedora. 

This problem does not surface in Fedora 6 until a recent live update. Fedora 7 however was hit with this problem from day 1. 

This bug has been reported many times since Fedora 5, 6 & 7 & it was never fixed.

It is very disappointing that such bugs are repeated observed time & again without a proper fix once & for all.

Is this a case of KDE compiled without unicode support? Or the unicode translation was messed up in KDE?
Comment 1 A. Spehr 2008-06-03 01:45:14 UTC 
If you just run KDE, does it display correctly there? 

This could be related to:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162284
in which case it isn't just Fedora.

So is it just simplified Chinese, or is it all Chinese? And actually, if you run kde4, do you still have a problem?

Thanks!
Comment 2 Jekyll Wu 2011-09-22 23:43:57 UTC 
KDE 3.5.x is long gone.