On further investigation, it appears that this bug has to do with an
interaction between:
* /etc/fonts/conf.d/49-sansserif.conf (from fontconfig-config), and
* /etc/fonts/conf.d/69-language-selector-zh-cn.conf (from
language-selector-common)
(substitute "zh-cn" for other locales)
Quite a few Ubuntu users have blogged about this problem, and the usual
quick fix is to get rid of /etc/fonts/conf.d/49-sansserif.conf , or
change the append_last "sans-serif" therein to some other font. That
said, I agree with Arne's assessment: Removing 49-sansserif.conf does
not seem to be the "right way", especially since this file is part of
the upstream source, probably added by Keith Packard himself?
This trick works for me:
$ cd /etc/fonts/conf.d/
$ sudo mv 69-language-selector-zh-cn.conf 48-language-selector-zh-cn.conf
Such that the Chinese-specific "prepend" config is sourced first.
Please try and see if this trick works for you too.
I also tried playing with the following command (under the zh_CN.UTF-8
locale):
$ FC_DEBUG=1 firefox http://www.tudou.com/
Checking the of the debug output, it appears that Adobe Flash is trying
to search for the appropriate font similar to the following command:
$ FC_DEBUG=1 fc-match
'/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf\-bitstream\-vera/Vera.ttf':scalable=true
With 49-sansserif.conf and 69-language-selector-zh-cn.conf, fc-match returns:
Vera.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman"
With 48-language-selector-zh-cn.conf and 49-sansserif.conf, fc-match returns:
wqy-zenhei.ttf: "WenQuanYi Zen Hei" "中等"
Arne, what do you think? Would that be an appropriate fix for language-
selector?
Thanks,
Anthony
** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Adobe Flash player 9 cannot display Chinese font
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207198
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