RH9-Fedora upgrade problem: Chinese, i18n fonts

[John Li]

Additional information that I should have
mentioned:  I have added all updates available
via up2date (except Mozilla-related, due to 
some bug) as of 1/1/04.  I did not test whether
simplified Chinese worked before adding the
updates.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of John Li
> Sent: 2004 01 01 16:56
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: RH9-Fedora upgrade problem: Chinese, i18n fonts
> 
> 
> Please help!
>   I have just upgraded from RH9 to Fedora.  However,
> I have a problem using Simplified Chinese (Traditional
> Chinese works fine).  When at the login prompt I
> choose languages, the script next to the simplified
> Chinese option does not display Chinese, but little
> squares of hex code.  (Thai is the same way.) When I 
> choose simplified Chinese and log in, Linux will not 
> load, and the following message pops up:
>   Your session only lasted 10 seconds....this could
>   mean there is some installation problem....
> [ellipses represent text deleted by me]
> 
> The option is presented to view file ~/.xsession-errors,
> which contains:
> 
> 0mXftFontOpen(): Failed:  
> (and then, in Chinese: "file or directory doesn't exist")
> Following charsets:
> 0: -Sony-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-ISO8859-1
> 1: -Sony-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-ISO8859-1
> 2: -isas-fangsong ti-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gb2312.1980-0
> 3: -jis-fixed-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0208.1983-0
> 4: -baekmuk-batangbdf-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ksc5601.1987-0
> 5: -taipei-fixed-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-big5-0
> 6: -arabic-newspaper-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1
> ....
> ** (gnome-session:5681): WARNING **: Cannot open font file for font
> ZYSong 18030 10
> ** (gnome-session:5681): WARNING **: Cannot open fallback 
> font, nothing
> to do
> 
> What can I do to fix this problem?
> 
> By the way, no such problem existed in my RH9 installation.  I'm aware
> that RH9 used zh_CN.gb18030, while Fedora uses zh_CN.UTF-8, I think.
>   Thanks very much!
> 
> 
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