I always had problems with simplified Chinese in SuSE, and
this problem remains in SuSE 9.3, so I address it here.
The difference between simplified and traditional Chinese
is, that some characters have been simplified. This means,
~80% of the characters remain the same, but some characters
are now simpler. Simplified Chinese is used in China
mainland, where traditional Chinese is still used in
Taiwan.
In SuSE 9.3, when I select simplified Chinese as secondary
language, everything works nearly fine, when I enter
Ctrl-Space, I get a SCIM popup, where I can choose
"Intelligent Pinyin" as input method.
The problem now is, that only characters that are the same
in simplified and traditional Chinese are shown in all
programs (means in the SCIM, in KWrite, in konsole, etc.).
All characters that are different in simplified Chinese are
not shown at all (empty characters, like "space"). This
means, I can only see the ~80% characters that are
unchanged. Of course, it works, if I change the font either
to a simplified Chinese font, or to GNU Unifont.
It seems, as if the font substitution were not correctly
configured for simplified Chinese.
I have installed all available fonts. Of course, I don't
want to define a substitute font for all of my fonts! But
still, Chinese should work under all circumstances.
I have newly installed SuSE 9.3 (not upgraded) and I have
created a new user with SuSE default settings, so it is
definitely not an upgrade problem.
Some questions:
- What is the simplest way for me to correct this?
- Can I patch it in the global /etc (for all users)?
- When and how will SuSE correct this? (Mike?)
- Why aren't there more people from China complaining this?
Have I some special configuration, which does not work
(e.g. my main language is German, one of my secondary
languages is simplified Chinese)?
Thank you
Regards
Marc