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