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

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Thanks, Yuan Chao. Let me try so summarize then:

There is an issue with fontconfig, so it by default picks "Demilight" over "Regular" (bug #1556457). We have tried to work around this problem in 69-language-selector-zh-??.conf and
64-language-selector-prefer.conf (the latter for e.g. an English locale). The workaround is not effective in Firefox, though.

I'm out of ideas. Is there anything we can do but waiting for bug
#1556457 to be fixed? (Assuming that will address the Firefox issue...)

On 2016-03-30 12:30, Yuan Chao wrote:
> UMing is second to TakaoPGothic so could be a problem in ja_JP on
> serif? (UMing does not have enough glyph coverage in JP)

Possibly, but if so it wouldn't be a new problem. With the Japanese
locale, and with full Japanese language support installed, TakaoPMincho
is there for serif.

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Title:
  change default CJK fonts to Noto CJK

Status in Fontconfig:
  Fix Released
Status in kubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in lubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in xubuntu-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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