Comment 31 for bug 94282

Hi Magi,

Could I ask if you have tried to use any English fonts in KDE Control Center to display? Such as Nimbus XXXX, Bitstream XXX, etc. If you use them, can they grab Simsun or Simhei as you have set for Chinese character fallback correctly? If Qt is doing this well on your machine, then I will try your suggestion thoroughly again.

I'm having problems here because I have set "Microsoft Jhenghei" (微軟正黑體) for fallback in the fontconfig files (I have tried /etc/fonts/language-selector.conf, /etc/fonts/local.conf, /etc/fonts/conf.d/xxxx, and I think ~/.font.conf already too), but now only serif, sans-serif and monospace these three fonts can grab Microsoft Jhenghei correctly; other English fonts in KDE are still grabbing some really ugly CJK font as fallback. So the problem is not that they display Chinese characters as boxes, but they just display Chinese characters awfully. But in GNOME, there's no problem with fontconfig. I guess this is the main issue in this bug report.

By the way, do we have to add XML dtd in the beginning of every conf file? Because I have seen many conf files with them, but many not. Would this affect how Qt handles fonts?

Cheers.