Adobe Flash Player 9 and 10 displays CJK text incorrectly
Bug #207198 reported by
Yuren Ju
This bug affects 14 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Flash Installer |
Fix Released
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High
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gill | ||
flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
On Ubuntu 7.10, Adobe Flash player 9 can display Chinese or Japanese (and likely Korean) glyphs, but on Ubuntu 8.04 it doesn't work, displaying "squares" for non-Latin glyphs instead. It seems that "Bitstream Vera Sans" (with no font substitution) is used rather than "WenQuanYi Zen Hei" or other appropriate CJK fonts. A screenshot is attached.
Steps to reproduce:
1. System -> Properties -> Language Support (from language-selector), and select one of the CJK locales as the default.
2. Re-login as needed.
3. Start Firefox and open e.g. http://
The same problem still plagues Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (lucid) beta 1 with Adobe Flash Player: flashplugin-
Changed in flashplugin-nonfree: | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
description: | updated |
Changed in flashplugin-nonfree: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
Changed in fontconfig: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Low → Medium |
Changed in fontconfig (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
tags: | added: fonts |
Changed in ubuntu-translations: | |
assignee: | nobody → Aron Xu (happyaron) |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Confirmed |
tags: | added: cjk |
tags: | removed: cjk |
Changed in ubuntu-translations: | |
assignee: | Aron Xu (happyaron) → nobody |
summary: |
- Adobe Flash player 9 displays CJK text incorrectly + Adobe Flash Player 9 and 10 displays CJK text incorrectly |
description: | updated |
Changed in flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
Changed in fontconfig (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
no longer affects: | language-selector (Ubuntu) |
no longer affects: | fontconfig (Ubuntu) |
affects: | ubuntu-translations → flash-install |
Changed in flash-install: | |
assignee: | nobody → gill (gillian-ha) |
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here is a way to fix the bug, just remove /etc/fonts/ conf.d/ 49-sansserif. conf, and everything work fine.