Comment 12 for bug 209145

I have to eat my words and withdraw the comment above.

After re-reading Pedro Villavicencio comments above,
I re-checked what was installed and compared the 7.04 and 8.04 systems,
and discovered poppler-data was not on the 8.04 system.
So I installed it, and as if by miracle, Chinese appeared.

I should note that there was no poppler-data on the 7.04 system - and the Chinese worked.

I should also note that how a humble user would know he/she must install poppler-data to read Chinese remains unresolved.
Lucky there is launchpad to find this stuff out!