Hello altogether,

first of all I would like to apologize if a fix for my issue is
already publicly documented but I did not manage to find it before.

So for some reason, in all gecko-based browsers (Firefox, Seamonkey)
and in Chromium, I cannot display Chinese (Traditional and
Simplified), Korean and Japanese characters, instead they are rendered
as squares.

All other Characters including non-latin ones (Arabic, Russian,
Georgian, Thai etc) work without any problem. I cannot exclude to have
forgotten to verify a specific language, I took the list of selectable
languages from the Chromium font settings to verify if they render
properly.

In other non-browser applications (tried gedit) they work. If I
copy-paste misrendered Chinese characters from Chromium into gedit,
they will appear rendered correctly in gedit. If I copy correctly
rendered Chinese characters from gedit into Chrome, they will be
pasted as squares but processed correct nontheless (I tried by putting
misrendered Chinese characters into web search engines and verify if
the results are expected)

What I have tried until now:

- I installed otter browser, which is not based on Blink or Gecko and
Chinese characters are rendered properly
- I tried forcing noto for all text in Chrome and Firefox, but it had
no effect in either browsers

My $LC_CTYPE is "en_US.UTF-8" in case this is of any use.
I am using OpenBSD 6.1

Now sadly I don't know where to start looking for the problem. I do
not believe the problem can be font or locale related because the
characters are rendered correctly in other applications.

I am thankful for any hint to solve the problem.

Daniele

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