[Bug 1468027] Re: change default CJK fonts to Noto CJK

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Thanks for your work, Mingye. What you are doing is unfortunately above
my head. ;)

Want to say, though, that the config file you mentioned in the upstream
bug report doesn't have anything to do with it. It's not in the Ubuntu
archive yet.

One fontconfig .conf file, which is in use at this time, is:

/etc/fonts/conf.avail/69-language-selector-zh-cn.conf

That file makes the "fc-match --verbose" command output the details for
the demilight font.

OTOH, also in a session with a non-Chinese locale, demilight is the
first font in a fc-match listing:

$ LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 fc-match -a | grep 'Noto Sans CJK SC'
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK SC" "DemiLight"
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK SC" "Regular"
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK SC" "Medium"
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK SC" "Thin"
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK SC" "Light"
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK SC" "Bold"
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK SC" "Black"

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Title:
  change default CJK fonts to Noto CJK

Status in Fontconfig:
  Confirmed
Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  just realize that fonts-noto-cjk is available in the repository, finally its packaged.
  i don't really know about korean community.
  But for Chinese and Japanese community, i think that the answer is clear.
  noto-cjk is definitely better what we had before, like fonts- wqy and fonts-droid.
  Android community had received these complains for years, finally they got them fixed on lollipop.
  Fedora also set it as default chinese font start from F21.
  and of course, i still hope that ubuntu could drop those 69-language-selector fontconfig files, just like what F13 did.

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