bug#41174: bug#42618: epiphany does not display Chinese

[Wensheng Xie <xiewensheng@hotmail.com>]

I had tried that for all possibility, and none had worked.

This is so strange.


On 2020/8/2 下午10:06, Leo Prikler wrote:
> I'm not quite sure how it's called in your language, but you can set an
> encoding using the fifth button from below in the main menu.
>
> Am Sonntag, den 02.08.2020, 22:02 +0800 schrieb Wensheng Xie:
>> Thank you, Leo.
>>
>>
>> What's the way to force Epiphany to use another locale for web?
>>
>>
>> best regards,
>>
>> wxie
>>
>> On 2020/8/2 下午6:05, Leo Prikler wrote:
>>> I'm not sure whether the warnings generated are related to the
>>> behaviour you're experiencing.  There is a way of forcing Epiphany
>>> to
>>> use another locale for a website, so perhaps you can try that.
>>>
>>> In relation to displaying text correctly, I already reported 41174
>>> and
>>> have not noticed it being fixed since.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Leo
>>>
>>> Full quote for ML readers:
>>>> Using guix 1.1.0
>>>>
>>>> guix (GNU Guix) 2621c6a9ea726cd57c39317329575b7b9fdd7b96
>>>>
>>>> error:
>>>> @guix ~$ epiphany
>>>>
>>>> ** (epiphany:1968): CRITICAL **: 20:43:43.285: void
>>>> webkit_web_context_register_uri_scheme(WebKitWebContext*, const
>>>> char*,
>>>> WebKitURISchemeRequestCallback, gpointer, GDestroyNotify):
>>>> assertion
>>>> 'g_ascii_strcasecmp(scheme, "ftp") != 0' failed
>>>>
>>>> (process:2): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:43:45.107: Locale not supported
>>>> by C
>>>> library.
>>>>           Using the fallback 'C' locale.
>>>>
>>>> (process:2): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:43:45.117: Locale not supported
>>>> by C
>>>> library.
>>>>           Using the fallback 'C' locale.
>>>>
>>>> (process:2): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:43:45.458: Locale not supported
>>>> by C
>>>> library.
>>>>           Using the fallback 'C' locale.
>>>>
>>>> (process:2): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:43:45.573: Locale not supported
>>>> by C
>>>> library.
>>>>           Using the fallback 'C' locale.
>>>>
>>>> (process:2): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:43:45.848: Locale not supported
>>>> by C
>>>> library.
>>>>           Using the fallback 'C' locale.
>>>>
>>>> (process:2): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:43:45.915: Locale not supported
>>>> by C
>>>> library.
>>>>           Using the fallback 'C' locale.
>>>>
>>>> (process:2): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:43:46.093: Locale not supported
>>>> by C
>>>> library.
>>>>           Using the fallback 'C' locale.
>>>>
>>>> =======
>>>> using nyxt browser, the Chinese is displayed correctly.
>>>>
>>>> How can I fix this?
>>>>
>>>> best regards,
>>>> wxie