[Bug 1581151] Re: Time to drop 69-language-selector-zh-??.conf?

[Yuan Chao]

For Noto Sans font, it's just for the Sans Serif family. Still for Serif
fonts, we still rely on other local font sets. The fallback settings in
those fontconfig files should still be needed.

Japanese uses Chinese characters but with some variates. That's why a
local font is preferred. Noto Sans provides all glyphs for different
locale, which meets the needs. Just currently only Sans Serif is
provided for Noto Sans.

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Title:
  Time to drop 69-language-selector-zh-??.conf?

Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  With the transition to Noto Sans CJK as default font for Chinese, we
  have established a fontconfig configuration for rendering Chinese
  under an *English* locale via these three files:

  /etc/fonts/conf.avail/64-language-selector-prefer.conf

  /etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-fonts-arphic-ukai.conf

  /etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-fonts-arphic-uming.conf

  (I questioned the need for the two latter in bug #1560548, but I think
  we'd better consider the need for the 69-language-selector-zh-??.conf
  files first.)

  So, if I have understood the feedback from Chinese users correctly,
  both Chinese and Japanese are properly rendered under an English
  locale in Ubuntu 16.04.

  It's my belief that what's happening if you switch to a Chinese locale
  is that one of the 69-language-selector-zh-??.conf files is enabled,
  and Japanese is no longer properly rendered while there is no
  improvement in rendering Chinese.

  If I'm right, I think we should drop 69-language-selector-zh-??.conf.
  Did I miss anything?

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