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.
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
* ...