Firefox Does Not Display Chinese Characters

[hitmen]

As above.

I have no problems displaying Chinese characters in IE in Windows and I just switched over to Ubuntu.

I have gone to view-> Character Encoding and set it to simpified Chinese but the screenshot still looks like the attachment.

I see only squares. What should I do?

[jmadero]

go to system -> administration -> language support, install the chinese language with the complex fonts. Should fix it

[hitmen]

Hi thanks. Actually I am using backtrack(advanced linux distro) although I am a Linux noob

I keyed in these command and firefox displays Chinese characters

BUT

now I need to TYPE chinese characters.

What should I install and how do I do it?

[shtromm]

You would need the appropiate fonts either you install those with package manager or copy those manually into /usr/share/fonts. You would also need to configure the key board accordingly - Gnome and KDE have here setting for intl. keyboards.

[jmadero]

ibus is the go to for international language support, not sure how to install with that distro...never even heard of the distro and I've been using Linux for a decade almost. A reason you chose that one?

[bluesheet]

Simply, 1st check the default locale of the system to zh_TW.UTF-8 or zh_CN.UTF-8. 2nd, install the Chinese fonts.

[hitmen]

Hi!

How do you change the default locale?

jmadero:
BackTrack Linux - Penetration Testing Distribution

[hitmen]

How do you install ibus?

Also how do I solve this?
root@bt:~# apt-get install qt-language-selector
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package qt-language-selector

[jmadero]

honestly I think you should switch to a more user friendly/new user distro....you'll get much more support and things are a lot more intuitive. For instance, in Ubuntu, ibus is preinstalled, to install a language it's as simple as going to system -> admin -> languages....that's it

I can't be of any help for a distro that I don't know at all, sorry