Error with Traditional Chinese Input

[Wolfthebutcher]

When I try to enter traditional Chinese text the entered content disapear.
I had to enter some content with English and change the already entered
content to Chinese. The program began to crash a few times when I began to
duplicate this process and I had to keep saving it to prevent loss of data.

[Luca Bruno (lucab)]

Can you please try if this bug still applies to a recent Inkscape version (ie. 0.46-pre0)?
If so, can you please attach a backtrace?

[Peter Moulder (pjrm)]

Here is how I usually enter chinese text in inkscape: I start inkscape, select text tool, click somewhere on canvas, then go to Text dialog box (Ctrl+Shift+T), select the Text tab, right-click in the text area, select Input Method>SCIM Input Method from the menu, press Ctrl+Space to switch scim from english to chinese text, then type in pinyin and select the appropriate phrase using number keys or mouse, and the chinese text appears in the text area in the Text dialog box. When I click the Apply button, the text appears on the canvas. I've never had text disappear. (I use simplified chinese, but I should note.)

How do you usually enter chinese text? What chinese fonts do you have installed?

[Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)]

I can confirm the original reporter's issue with Inkscape 0.48.2 on Fedora 18.

When I try inputting Traditional Chinese text, the text doesn't appear in Inkscape.

However, it is there, using the arrow keys I can move to previous/next characters. If I type a mix of English and Chinese characters, only the English ones appear.

I am using a font which is capable of displaying Chinese characters (but in any case, shouldn't Inkscape use fontconfig to fallback to the appropriate font if I'm using one which doesn't support Chinese?).

I tried inputting directly on the canvas, or with Peter's method (comment #2), both give the same result: Traditional Chinese characters are invisible.

[grey tomorrow (gtomorrow)]

Closing because INVALID: Duplicate issue.

Please see https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/2181

If you feel this issue has been injustly closed, please feel free to open a new issue at http://inkscape.org/report . Thank you.

Closed by: https://gitlab.com/greytomorrow