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 * ... -- unreadable characters in recovery mode https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573502 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
