[Bug 2025651] Re: default Japanese font in snap apps is ugly

Gunnar Hjalmarsson 2025651 at bugs.launchpad.net
Tue Jul 4 19:13:26 UTC 2023


An identical PR against another project...

https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft-desktop-integration/pull/13

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Title:
  default Japanese font in snap apps is ugly

Status in Snappy:
  In Progress
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Japanese fonts in snap packages such as Firefox use glyphs from
  Chinese fonts. non-snap packages are fine.

  This is derived from the following ticket:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/2017076

  How to reproduce:

  1. Install lunar or mantic with Japanese language pack
  2. Enable Japanese locale
  3. Start Firefox
  4. Type or Copy "刃" to address field and type enter
  5. Check glyph of "刃"

  Expected result:
  The following Japanese glyph is displayed:
  https://glyphwiki.org/wiki/u5203

  Actual result:
  The following Chinese? glyph is displayed:
  https://glyphwiki.org/wiki/zihai-018904

  Others:

  * Ubuntu 22.04 LTS not affected, works fine.
  * Fixed if you remove fonts-droid-fallback package.

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