Konqueror doesn't display chinese page correctly with en_US

[depp]

Binary package hint: fontconfig

I used fontconfig-voodoo -f -s zh_CN to set preferred fonts of simplified chinese. Konqueror doesn't display chinese fonts well in all chinese pages. like www.mindmeters.com or http://www.google.com/intl/zh-CN/

[depp (li-sun)]

locale remains en_US not zh_CN. I know if i change the locale to zh_CN, it should be correct. but i think chinese should be shown well in all locale

[depp (li-sun)]

What difference does Konqueror do, according to the locale variable?
Or to ask, besides link /usr/share/language-selector/fontconfig/zh_CN to /etc/fonts/language-selector.conf, and set all locale variables to zh_CN.utf8, what happens at the same time?

[depp (li-sun)]

Btw, i set Sans Serif, Monospace and Serif in konqueror's font-setting.

[Michael Ummels (urmel291)]

I have the same problem. It seems to appear not only in Konqueror, but in any QT application. Whenever I type in Chinese characters in a QT application, Qt uses the Japanese font Kochi Mincho to render them instead of one of the Chinese unicode fonts as specified in /etc/fonts/language-selector.conf (symlink to /usr/share/language-selector/fontconfig/zh_TW on my system). Font substitution works fine in GTK apps, though.

[Michael Ummels (urmel291)]

I should add that everything worked fine in Breezy, where I used /etc/fonts/local.conf to give preference to the Chinese unicode fonts. However, this does not seem to work anymore in Dapper (at least for Qt apps).

[Michael Ummels (urmel291)]

A workaround seems to be to add the following to $HOME/.qt/qtrc:

[Font Substitutions]
Bitstream Vera Sans=\0
DejaVu Sans=AR PL ZenKai Uni^e
DejaVu Sans Condensed=AR PL ZenKai Uni^e
DejaVu Sans Mono=AR PL ZenKai Uni^e
DejaVu Serif=AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni^e
DejaVu Serif Condensed=AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni^e
Kochi Mincho=\0
Sans Serif=\0
arial=helvetica^e
helv=helvetica^e
tms rmn=times^e

Replace "DejaVu Sans" and "DejaVu Serif" with your standard sans and serif font, respectively.

[LI Daobing (lidaobing)]

the previous workaround sounds that DejaVu fonts is the default font for QT, but I see most of the applications choose sans, serif and monospace as the default font, I can't find any config file in "/etc/fonts" and "/etc/qt3" mention about sans/serif/monospace is mapped to dejavu's fonts. who can tell me why the dejavu's fonts is the default fonts? thanks.