Comment 6 for bug 573502

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David Planella (dpm) wrote :

Colin Watson tells us that the Linux console can't render CJK, that it's not a matter of fonts - it doesn't have the rendering technology. As Arne is mentioning, other languages will also be affected.

Other notes:

<cjwatson> people who need CJK text on consoles use things like jfbterm
<cjwatson> which wouldn't be impossible, we have a framebuffer there already in most situations now, it's just fairly cumbersome

So I think in the short term what we should do is disable translations for the affected locales.

So far we've got:

 * ja
 * zh_*
 * ko
 * ...