Display Chinese characters in Xephyr/Maemo 5?

[magnuslu]

Hi,

I have a Qt app which runs fine on Windows. It stores Chinese characters in a SQLITE database and I perfectly able to read and write them. Now I am porting this application to Maemo 5. I have set up my development environment with Scratchbox and Xephyr. In my application I read from the database first to a QString variable that populates a QTextEdit widget. In the ui file I used font family 'MS Song', 'Times New Roman' (which worked on Windows) and none. The characters are always displayed as a rectangle in my app. I don't have a N900 to test it on, so I don't know if it is only an emulator (Xephyr) issue (that I want to solve anyway) or if it will be there also on the device. Is it a matter of installing fonts to Xephyr? How do I do that?

Please note that I have qDebug statements in my code and the characters appear correctly in my Scratchbox terminal window.

I've posted this on qtforum.org as well with no replies so far...

Regards,

Magnus

[julieshort]

As someone who is learning Mandarin, I would appreciate the opportunity to be able to type the characters on my N900. So any progress on the development of this package would be fantastic.
Although I am not able to help with the development I am interested to follow progress.

[pycage]

The SDK is missing the fonts. The device has them and displays Chinese just fine.

[magnuslu]

I've now got my N900 device and I can confirm that the Chinese characters show up just right.