[Bug 1043031] Re: ja/zh fontconfig configuration only applied when locale is set 'natively'

[Iain Lane]

I think we /can/ remove the LANG guards for the japanese case, as this
fontconfig file (69_…_ja-jp.conf) only refers to takao fonts. What if we
were to do that and to move the configurations out to the font packages
they refer to? Would this cause problems for Chinese users?

I don't see such a simple solution for Chinese - zh_MO/zh_HK and
zh_CN/zh_SG have the same configurations, but there are differences
between the two sets. And anyway I now understand that if we remove all
LANG guards then one configuration (happens to be the Chinese because
that's later alphabetically) 'wins' if the user has both Japanese and
Chinese fonts installed. This is a problem because the fonts share
glyphs. Do I understand this right?

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Title:
  ja/zh fontconfig configuration only applied when locale is set
  'natively'

Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  When I try to use "fontconfig-voodoo" in Ubuntu 12.10 from terminal,
  it told me:

      The program 'fontconfig-voodoo' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
      sudo apt-get install language-selector-common

  Actually, I have language-selector-common package installed in my
  Ubuntu.

  Where is fontconfig-voodoo? Without it, I can't config the correct
  Chinese fonts under English locale.

  Thanks.

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