http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/273/
Take a look at this complicated HOWTO:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Japanese_Input_and_Fonts_in_Ubuntu_7%2e10

Setting up SCIM / SKIM should be easy regardless of what language you log in with. Many people need to use multiple languages.

In Windows, all you need to do is open the Regional Settings and check the languages you want and possibly insert the original disc.

In addition, the fonts installed for CJK by default are horrible. Ubuntu should include more readable fonts out of the box.

I feel this is a very important issue and is blocking Ubuntu from being a serious option for CJK users.

[196 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #273


]]> en-us Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:08:47 +0000 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:49:14 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/273/ Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:24:19 +0000 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:00:37 +0000 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:02:28 +0000 Yes I can do it with the command line ,but it takes a lot of trial and error to find which files I need. Especially for enabling SCIM on English session. It used to work with im-switch and now theres scim-bridge , except it doesn't always work, I found myself using im-switch on a few Gutsy boxes running an English session.
And the fonts definitely need some work on, At least have Firefox display them correctly by default and not using several fonts in the same sentence. ]]> Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:52:52 +0000
The steps required are simple though, and should have been done by Ubuntu for ages.]]> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:53:27 +0000 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:18:38 +0000
What I don't understand is, usually users (I assume) are going to go to language preferences and enable Chinese (or Japanese, or Korean), and probably not the other asian languages. With that in mind, why can't Ubuntu simply notice when say, Chinese is enabled, and go through all the motions of configuring its system to display Chinese characters correctly? I mean, if I can follow a page-long list of instructions to customize my system for chinese display, so can the computer itself, right?

Ok sorry for ranting. But I think we should be able to get on this issue. ]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:45:05 +0000
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5840/]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:32:56 +0000
Most problems with multilingual support arises when an English (or any latin-locale user) wants to input a CJK language (or other language necessitating an IME) under an English session.

Asking them to just install from, say, a Chinese CD and using a Chinese session when their primary language isn't Chinese (or Japanese, or Korean) is downright senseless. It doesn't solve tha fonts problem either.]]> Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:15:32 +0000
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/ttf-wqy-zenhei
http://wenq.org/enindex.cgi?keywords=ZenHei_Kwafoo_README&raw=1 ]]> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:03:30 +0000
Since I'm a Kubuntu user, if they plan to integrate a solution for this in Ubuntu, integrate to all Ubuntu family (Kubuntu,Xubuntu and etc.). I hate to feel like a second class citizen.]]> Tue, 27 May 2008 11:37:59 +0000 @Greenery

I am a multilingual user too, storing Traditional and Simplified Chinese and Japanese data on the GB-EN login. Ubuntu system itself can run on English any time but I want C and J supported side-by-side. This includes a decent set of input methods that works on ALL Debian applications as well as proper display/handling of Asian scripts in the file system and on the Internet (preferably independent of browsers).

I have tried quite a few HOWTOs with heavy command lining and am still having the same problems — I even don't remember what exactly I did any more. Fresh install looks like this only option but I haven't found time and space to do a complete back-up.

I ardently wait for a day when a simultaneous CJK support is only a few clicks away from the fresh install! :)]]> Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:37:04 +0000
But the Ubuntu biggest problem is the lack of good fonts for CJK. Every release breaks something, and gives the impression that Ubuntu considers CJK locales and countries not their "main" market. Big error if you ask me.

For example, in 7.10 korean fonts were ok, in 8.04 are ugly and completely unreadable. In 8.04 japanese fonts are ok, but in previous versions antialiasing was enabled for small sizes making them unreadable.

In 8.10, too, firefox 3 (i understand this is not really and ubuntu problem) is still worse that firefox 2 when latin1 and japanese/chinese characters are on the same page, mixing double-width and half-width and producing an ugly mess (just check any japanese wikipedia article with latin characters).]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:26:01 +0000 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:28:02 +0000
But I join the complaint about fonts. More fonts available for CJK languages. Ubuntu's Japanese interface is fine. But I also use Opera, and the available fonts are terrible. Some of the fault is Opera's -- Firefox renders the same pages fine, and seems to be able to use fonts Opera can't (the same as the system: Sans etc., whatever that really is). But whatever Opera's weakness is, there are still only four or five fonts available for it. Of those, most are too light and delicate to be suitable for a browser, even if they look good printed. Only Free Sans and A-something render well in Web pages, but both look like scrawls in bold. Apparently Free Sans, at least, has bold for hiragana but not kanji characters. I have looked before for Debian packages of CJK fonts, and there is nothing else except handwriting fonts. ]]> Sat, 09 May 2009 11:29:31 +0000
Still should have been easier/more obvious, IMHO.]]> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:49:14 +0000