Square blocks in East Asian Language in Chromium and Opera

English Applications
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Hi anyone else getting square blocks in place of East Asian Language in Chromium and Opera?
Any resolution to this?

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most likely the default font was set to a non unicode font, go in settings and change the default font to a unicode one
Droid Sans is unicode (there are probably others but I don’t use unicode)

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And of course for a Unicode code point to be shown on the screen/paper, a font with has a glyph for this code pont must be availabe.

So, do you have a font installed that covers the, further only know by you, “East Asian Language” (you probably mean “Script”, not “Language”). You can know e.g. because other applications and/or web-sites show correct.

Then do as advised above. Some web-sites do not communicate correct to the browsers the encoding they use.

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An example of square fonts is openSUSE forum Chinese Section ] ] (Chinese)

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Is this related?

su -c “fonts-config --verbose”
Password:
Creating fonts.{scale,dir} files …
Creating cache files for fontconfig …
Creating 32bit cache files for fontconfig …
Rereading the font databases in the current font path …
generating java font setup …
warning: cannot find a Japanese sans serif font, Japanese might not work in Java
warning: cannot find a Japanese monospace font, Japanese might not work in Java
warning: cannot find a Japanese serif font, Japanese might not work in Java
warning: cannot find a Simplified Chinese sans font, Simplified Chinese might not work in Java
warning: cannot find a Simplified Chinese serif font, Simplified Chinese might not work in Java
warning: cannot find a Traditional Chinese sans font, Traditional Chinese might not work in Java
warning: cannot find a Traditional Chinese serif font, Traditional Chinese might not work in Java
warning: cannot find a Korean sans font, Korean might not work in Java
warning: cannot find a Korean serif font, Korean might not work in Java

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Maybe for you, but not for me.
It seems that you do not have a proper font installed.

I quote one of the sub-forums is titled:

Forum: 应用与支持

And the first sticky thread there starts with:

這個是我們中文圈子的社區源，目前主要維護者是我(@doublechou](http://twitter.com/#!/doublechou))和 peng yang 姊妹(@hillwood](http://twitter.com/#!/hillwood))。由于還沒有國別源的存在，所以這個 Semi Official 的源基本就是我們的中文官方源啦。

And these are all genuine chinese characters before my eyes in Firefox, not replacement characters.

Maybe you can check if at least Firefox shows correctly.

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Firefox works fine.
So how to find out which are the dependency missing fonts?

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both chrome (chromium) and opera use blink, this is most likely a blink bug report it to the opensuse bugzilla or to google’s Chromium bugzilla
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/
https://bugs.chromium.org
you can use the same user name and password for opensuse’s bugzilla

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Well, I would say thatyou just proved that the fonts are there and not missing. You will most probably also see them in LibreOfiice Writer (Insert > Special Characters) and in the KDE application KCharSelect.

It are aperently your applications that fail to find them. As I do not use both Chromium and Opera, others may know more from this point on.

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Let me reply to this old thread since I have solved it, in case someone hit the same issue.
It solved rendering on both Opera and Chromium

sudo zypper in arphic*fonts
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Thanks for reporting back fort the benefit of others.