[i18n] Re: CJK support

[Thierry Vignaud]

"Funda Wang" <fundawang@gmail.com> writes:

> > There were a couple of issues last years about CJK support but
> > there's no much noise about that (though there still other areas
> > in the world with poor support such as india).
> >
> > Does that mean there's no much problem for chinese & japanese ?
> >
> > If no, what're the remaining issues?
> > Especially for the end user/beginner?
> Firstly, Mandriva is far more advanced than all other distros for
> CJK users.
> 
> 1) Qt3 cannot distinguish Chinese/Japanese characters previously,
> even things have changed a lot in qt3.3.6. That will lead a problem
> if one installs both Japanese and Chinese fonts, the Japense font
> will get used even under zh locales. So, That is why Mandriva One is
> not welcomed in China, because a lot glyphs are being rendered as
> squares due to Japanese fonts were being used.
> 
> Ubuntu solves this problem via locale-dependent fontconfig config
> files. IMHO, it is a dirty fix but it can satisfy the user a lot,
> especially those only use certain single language. But we shouldn't
> introduce such a huge regression now.

there're several issues:
- Qt/KDE really should support m17n, that is mixing texts of different
  languages; once language is know, it should be easy to use the
  proper font (but see below)
- Qt not defaulting to other fonts availlable to a given locale (hence
  the squares); according to glenn & laurent, this should be fixed in
  Qt4 (at least! :-))