Bug 492472

Summary:	www-client/chromium-32.0.1700.19 fails to display Chinese characters in the tab title
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Xi <davidshen84>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Chromium Project <chromium>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	10.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	emerge --info www-client/chromium

Description Xi 2013-11-25 00:01:34 UTC

Chinese characters are displayed as blank in the tab title. But "xprop _NET_WM_NAME" can grep the correct Chinese and display them in the console. However, the Chinese in the web page can be displayed correctly.

I did not have this issue in Chromium 31

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit https://zh.wikipedia.org/
2. Observer the tab title
3.
Actual Results:  
Title is blank

Expected Results:  
Title in Chinese language should be displayed

My system is able to display/input Chinese. But my locale is set to en_US.UTF-8.

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Comment 1 Xi 2013-11-25 00:02:19 UTC

Created attachment 363926 [details]
emerge --info www-client/chromium

Comment 2 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-01-14 22:15:23 UTC

Please try installing e.g. media-fonts/arphicfonts . Doing so made the issue go away on my system.

Also make sure to read /usr/share/doc/chromium-32.0.1700.72/README.gentoo.bz2 which mentions other possible fonts packages to install.

Comment 3 Xi 2014-01-16 02:48:48 UTC

Actually, based on the discussions at https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=316723, the issue was caused by a mal-functional font named 'wqy-bitmapfont'. After unmerged/disabled this font, Chromium works well on my system.