Nobuto, thank you very much for your work on making Ubuntu support Japanese fonts properly. I can always learn so much in this respect from you and share your passion for visual aesthetics here.
As you may know, I usually remain with the LTS releases and only run the development release from time to time. As such, I hope the fix for this ticket will be backported to trusty as well. Furthermore, my system is mainly English-based. I hope you won't mind me adding my own experiences here. I can basically confirm your findings, except that my US-locale returns a different font. $ env LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 fc-match Ryumin ipamp.ttf: "IPAPMincho" "Regular" $ env LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 fc-match Ryumin fonts-japanese-gothic.ttf: "Takao Pゴシック" "Regular" I tried the test PDF in different viewers and noticed there were some alignment issues in the viewer built into Firefox (please refer to my screenshot). I suspect that is another, separate issue? One of the things I sometimes notice is that Chinese at times seems to have precedence over Japanese. For someone like me, that is unfortunate. Are you aware of a list of known issues or some website to check if one's configuration has any errors? This area of Ubuntu seems to change from release to release so it is hard to keep up (with a lot of improvement being made, at least that has been my experience). I do not know as much as you do, so at best, I will notice the effects but I would be utterly unable to dig into the causes. That's why your work is so much appreciated. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-takao in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1430339 Title: fc-match Ryumin should return Mincho(serif) font in ja locale Status in fonts-takao package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Ryumin and Gothic-BBB are generic font names for serif/sans-serif like Arial/Times new roman. fonts-takao-mincho has a rule[1] to offer substitute for Ryumin, however `fc-match Ryumin` does not return fonts-takao-mincho(serif), it returns fonts-takao-gothic(sans-serif) instead. Expected result: $ fc-match Ryumin fonts-japanese-mincho.ttf: "TakaoPMincho" "Regular" Actual result: $ fc-match Ryumin fonts-japanese-gothic.ttf: "Takao Pゴシック" "Regular" [1] /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-takao-mincho.conf 21 <match target="pattern"> 22 <test qual="any" name="family"> 23 <string>Ryumin</string> 24 </test> 25 <edit name="family" mode="prepend"> 26 <string>Takao P明朝</string> 27 </edit> 28 </match> ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04 Package: fonts-takao-mincho 003.02.01-9ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-7.7-generic 3.19.0 Uname: Linux 3.19.0-7-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.16.2-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Tue Mar 10 22:41:44 2015 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-02-28 (9 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Alpha amd64 (20150228) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: fonts-takao UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-takao/+bug/1430339/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
