I have this problem too with Japanese subtitles on TED videos and captions in Youtube. I'm on Ubuntu 10.10, using google-chrome with the Shockwave Flash 10.1 r103 plugin (flashplugin-installer) installed. The locale is ja_JP.utf8.
-- Adobe Flash Player 9 and 10 displays CJK text incorrectly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207198 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs