Bug#464477: epiphany-webkit: fails to render japanese

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:39:04PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Package: epiphany-webkit
> Version: 2.20.3-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> 
> If I go to a webpage using japanese characters, e.g.:
> 
>    http://packages.debian.org/ja/sid/arm/epiphany-webkit
> 
> all the Japanese characters on that page show up as little boxes.

This is a known problem and should be fixed when upstream bug 15229[1] is
fixed. The interesting thing is that if your locale is ja_JP.something
(something being EUC-JP or UTF-8), japanese just displays fine. This has
to do with fontconfig font selection, obviously. Hopefully, pango use
upstream should solve the issue.

Mike

1. http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15229