Simplified Chinese in SuSE

I always had problems with simplified Chinese in SuSE, and 
this problem remains in SuSE 9.3, so I address it here.

The difference between simplified and traditional Chinese 
is, that some characters have been simplified. This means, 
~80% of the characters remain the same, but some characters 
are now simpler. Simplified Chinese is used in China 
mainland, where traditional Chinese is still used in 
Taiwan.

In SuSE 9.3, when I select simplified Chinese as secondary 
language, everything works nearly fine, when I enter 
Ctrl-Space, I get a SCIM popup, where I can choose 
"Intelligent Pinyin" as input method.

The problem now is, that only characters that are the same 
in simplified and traditional Chinese are shown in all 
programs (means in the SCIM, in KWrite, in konsole, etc.). 
All characters that are different in simplified Chinese are 
not shown at all (empty characters, like "space"). This 
means, I can only see the ~80% characters that are 
unchanged. Of course, it works, if I change the font either 
to a simplified Chinese font, or to GNU Unifont.

It seems, as if the font substitution were not correctly 
configured for simplified Chinese.

I have installed all available fonts. Of course, I don't 
want to define a substitute font for all of my fonts! But 
still, Chinese should work under all circumstances.

I have newly installed SuSE 9.3 (not upgraded) and I have 
created a new user with SuSE default settings, so it is 
definitely not an upgrade problem.

Some questions:
 - What is the simplest way for me to correct this?
 - Can I patch it in the global /etc (for all users)?
 - When and how will SuSE correct this? (Mike?)
 - Why aren't there more people from China complaining this?
   Have I some special configuration, which does not work
   (e.g. my main language is German, one of my secondary
   languages is simplified Chinese)?


Thank you
Regards
Marc

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