[Bug 1595414] Re: Awful generic selection for zh in Firefox

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Please note that if you use a Chinese locale, it's 69-language-selector-
zh-??.conf which is effective, not 65-fonts-arphic-*.conf.

As regards the latter, one thought is to change it so UMing is preferred
over UKai. Another thought is to drop the sans-serif items in 65-fonts-
arphic-*.conf. Probably we'd need to test to see how Firefox behaves
with those changes.

Also, this is reasonably not a trusty specific issue. It would be good
if we could study this in the current development release (yakkety)
first, and then backport if we figure out something better.

@Aron: Any thoughts?

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Title:
  Awful generic selection for zh in Firefox

Status in fonts-arphic-ukai package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in fonts-arphic-uming package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in fonts-arphic-ukai source package in Trusty:
  New
Status in fonts-arphic-uming source package in Trusty:
  New
Status in language-selector source package in Trusty:
  New

Bug description:
  In https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/wily/fonts-
  arphic-ukai/wily/revision/6, UMing and UKai are set as generics for
  fonts. However, this set of generics is completely intolerable --
  setting UKai as a generic is like setting Zapfino and/or Comic Sans as
  a system-wise generic, while UMing as a normal (just a bit thin) serif
  sounds a bit better. This yields terrible results on non-Chinese
  systems with non-Chinese lang-attributed websites, like Twitter, on
  Ubuntu 14.04 LTS after installing Chinese language support which
  includes the two arphic fonts mentioned in this report.

  This problem is similar to
  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20911, a long-standing
  system-global fontconfig non-latin fallback problem. See also bug
  #1560548 where these generic settings are considered as 'redundant'
  and proposed for deletion. I have mentioned a third-person report
  about such selection in #1560548 previously, but I have just
  reproduced this bug by myself by installing zh-cn support by mistake.

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