Some Chinese characters unreadable

[Sah Lee]

Some characters are unreadable in Twitter and Facebook posts that are written in Chinese.
I am attaching the screenshot. The rectangles are supposed to be characters.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: friends-app 0.90.0bzr13.04.17-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-29.42-generic 3.8.13.5
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-29-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Aug 23 08:48:47 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-08-12 (375 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: friends-app
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-26 (118 days ago)

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately, you forgot to attach the screenshot of the problem. It would be helpful if you could attach it.

[Sah Lee (leesah)]

I must've mis-used the attachment feature. Here is the screenshot. Sorry.

[Sah Lee (leesah)]

And the Chinese in the tweet should be "罗圈腿夹个浮板真费劲=.=！ (at 浦东游泳馆源深分馆) ". See here: https://twitter.com/LueHai/status/370702668219432960

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

Quite strange that some characters show up but not others! I was expecting them all to be blank.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

The Friends app is no more, but this would be useful to test using for example some other apps in the latest Ubuntu Phone images. Marking Incomplete since I'm not sure how to test it without given exact steps using a current image.

A lot has changed, including Qt 5.3.2 release in the latest vivid (devel-proposed) images, 5.3.0 in the rtm stable images.

[Sah Lee (leesah)]

I would like to help with the reproducing steps. Please tell me what I can do besides providing the link to that tweet.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

I did not get the Friends app working anymore on the latest Ubuntu development version (15.04).

I made the attached QML test application that does show the characters correctly. I would assume it's true also for any other Qt application, which would point to the direction of this bug being fixed.

If you download the attachment, and install a package called "qml", you should be able to run the app on the command line with "qml testcase.qml". You can even use the key Alt-F2 and type the command in there, if you make sure the testcase.qml is in the Home folder.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

This attachment shows the text being rendered correctly.

[Sah Lee (leesah)]

I, as a Chinese, confirm the characters are rendered correctly in the screenshot attached to @timo-jyrinki 's comment #9 .

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

Based on the (old) comment #10 marking as fixed. Any problem with font rendering is likely due to Qt or Qt <-> system integration and not the app itself.