Binary package hint: language-selector
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
Package-version: language-selector-0.4.18
Ubuntu's language-selector fontconfig overide system seems to have
a problem with CJK: particularly with rendering Japanese on a Chinese
desktop and Chinese on a Japanese desktop (I am not talking about
Han Unification ambiguities, but text with lang tags).
close example:
1. set a Japanese environment with language-selector
2. start a new desktop session in Japanese
3. open firefox
4. go to http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/ for example
Results:
4. Chinese page is rendered mostly with Japanese glyphs
with fallback to Chinese font for missing glyphs
Expected
4. Chinese page rendered in Chinese font
Notes
For comparison you can try in Fedora for example
where rendering will respect the xhtml lang tag of the page.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Dec 2 10:29:30 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Alpha amd64 (20091014.1)
Package: language-selector 0.4.18
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=ja_JP.UTF-8
LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: language-selector
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-settings-daemon:1348): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
(gnome-settings-daemon:1348): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
(nautilus:1409): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1429): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
I tried to solve this by checking for lang tags, but didn't succeed so far. Fontconfig doesn't give me the desired results. Need to investigate more, maybe fontconfig itself is buggy, too.