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

[Miles Bader]

Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> writes:
>> 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.

That doesn't fix it for me; if I do:

   LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 epiphany-webkit &

or:

   LANG=ja_JP.EUC-JP epiphany-webkit &

Then "GUI frame elements" (menus, status-bar messages, etc) are all
properly displayed in Japanese, but web page content is still screwed up
(displayed as little boxes).  GUI widgets displayed inside the web page
(e.g., in forms) are also screwed up.

Thanks,

-Miles

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