Thanks Andi. Sure it looks as great as it should be in
https://www.dokuwiki.org/playground:chinese
which reflects google searching the problem returning nothing. That's very good news.
I am using the default template. So far I have tried Firefox and Chrome and the problem exists for both. It must be something very specific to my setup. I will spend some time to iron it out and update here if anything found. I will remove the 2 or 3 installed plugins to test.