I'm using freshly installed Lucid RC with proper language support. Also you can see on the top of the screenshot, the Chinese HTML texts are displaying well. But not the Chinese subtitles in the Flash.
Actually you're right, it has to do with font configuration. Allow me to guess, in your ~/fonts.conf or language-selector.conf, you're using a font including CJK coverage for the first priority sans-serif. So it's enough for your Flash plugin to display Japanese fonts. "Shouldn't this be the sufficient answer to the question?" you might ask. However, before recently, most fonts with CJK coverage, their alphanumeric parts are not so beautiful compared to genuine Western fonts. So we'd need to set in the fonts.conf to use first a nice-looking Western font as sans-serif, then when encountering CJK glyphs, falling back to second or third setting (nice-looking CJK fonts for examply). This is the so gentle and free mechnism which fontconfig was made for. But because of the discrepancy of Adobe plugin (which is almost the only fully working Flash plugin in the market), there remains no flexibility to configure font displaying as freely. As we have know, the plugin before 10.1 could just recognize the first priority in the sans-serif list, and did not allow falling back to second, third... ones, so if unfortunately we insist to use a font without CJK coverage as the first sans-serif candidate, then those happy squares will just hang around when CJK glyphs go on the stage. My opinion is that this bug is still there (unless people do some fonts.conf workaround which is not ideal), and what we can do is keep reporting to the upstream to urge Adobe to improve their plugin. If they don't make the plugin support fully fontconfig benefits, then people on Linux would need a font with full coverage of all the Unicode codepoints, with every part nice-looking, which is almost impossible to exist. -- Adobe Flash Player 9 and 10 displays CJK text incorrectly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207198 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
