I have created an .svg image using Inkscape. The image has Chinese characters in it. When I upload it to Wikipedia, the characters don't display. Here's the image:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JeetKuneDo.svg

If you click on the image, the characters will appear. I need the characters to show when the image is in an article.

The image you on the page you link to is a PNG, not your SVG. Wikipedia obviously converts SVG's to a better supported format. Wikipedia probably won't understand those symbols if it's converter doesn't have access to that font. I recommend you convert all the text to objects. This is something you should always do, even with English text, if your image is to be displayed on a web page--there's nothing saying that the person viewing that text will have the necessary font to display it correctly.

Thank you!!!! I selected 'Object to Path' to change the text into an image. It worked perfectly. Thanks again.