[Bug 792471] Re: Change default Korean font to ttf-nanum

[Keechang Kim]

Wonderful news!

30-cjk-aliases.conf (which is now included in language-selector-common)
should be updated (replaced) as per "Modified configuration files"
provided here as "Bug attachments".

65-nonlatin.conf (which is now included in fontconfig-conf) should also
be updated as proposed here.

Even if these changes are not made, as long as users have not installed
ttf-unfonts, they will have fonts-nanum as their default Korean font,
which is perhaps ok. But if these changes are not made, when users
install ttf-unfonts as 'additional' fonts, they will have they
'preferred font' changed into ttf-unfonts, which will be an unpleasant,
unintended surprise for quite a few users.

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Title:
  Change default Korean font to ttf-nanum

Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “openjdk-6” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “ubuntu-meta” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  This report affects ubuntu-desktop, language-support-fonts-ko and language-selector-common.
  Since Sep. 2007, ttf-unfonts-core has been a suggested package of ubuntu-desktop. In a default install, Unfonts are set as the default Korean font.
  A superior quality Korean font (ttf-nanum) became available as from late 2010 under OFL. In May 2011, Google ChromeOS adopted ttf-nanum as the default Korean font. After an extensive discussion in the Ubuntu Korean LoCo Mailing list since last year, a consensus has now been reached that it is time to migrate to ttf-nanum as the default Korean font in Ubuntu. 
  To achieve this, (1) ttf-unfonts-core (7.4Mb package size) must be replaced with ttf-nanum (7.5Mb package size) as the suggested package of ubuntu-desktop (2) language-support-fonts-ko should now include ttf-unfonts-core and ttf-nanum-coding (3) appropriate changes need to be made in some of the configurations files shipped with language-selector-common and fontconfig-config (proposed patches are attached herewith).

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