I would prefer keeping the Bitstream Vera and DejaVu entries, just move them to a lower priority. It neither solve the problem nor make it worse, but could leave a reference so that users can change the settings back easier; also these two fonts may provide extra characters/glyphs as they evolve.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to language-selector in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/713950 Title: Improvement for zh-tw fontconfig settings of language-selector Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: language-selector Now the setting of 69-language-selector-zh-tw.conf picks up the Latin fonts first, then fallback to Chinese fonts. By default, ubuntu only installs DejaVu font family and WenQuanYi Micro Hei font. DejaVu is a high quality Latin fontfamily which has ExtraLight, Condensed, Book, Condensed Italic...and many more styles. WenQuanYi Micro Hei font covers Latin, Chinese, Japanese and Korean, but only has Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic styles. However, there is no need to pick up the Latin fonts first. I am here to suggest a better configuration by the reasons below: 1. As far as I have known, WenQuanYi Micro Hei font provied all the typefaces which DejaVu fontfamily covers, but lack of Condensed, EtralLight and some other styles. 2. The order of languages most used by Chinese (Taiwan) users is: Chinese > English > Japanese > Korean > other Western languages(eg. French, Spanish, German, Russia...). Ideally, the system should select the best fonts having Chinese (Taiwan) characters first, then go to the best Latin fonts to meet Chinese (Taiwan) users' need. 3. There is no evidence indicating mixing Latin characters provided by Latin fonts with Chinese characters provided by CJK fonts will be the best default experience. Actullay, that will sacrifice the consistency when there is Latin and CJK text displaying on the screen at the same time, because Latin characters and CJK characters are in different flavors. However, many users insist on using DejaVu fontfamily to display the Latin characters. The same visual appearance is reserved by the proposed configuration. 3. Selecting fonts including Chinese (Taiwan) characters first in the configuration provides the best compatibilty for Chinese characters with those programs which do not follow the fallback machenism of fontconfig, such as Evince, to be readable. The programs like that only pick up the first font, DejaVu font, and displaying squares for Chinese characters. With this improved configuration, the problem still can be found out by the "Latin characters" part which should be DejaVu but not WenQuanYi Micro Hei. 4. People still have the freedom to edit the configuration or add new rules, there is no harm selecting those font strings including Chinese (Taiwan) characters first in zh_TW configuration. Please consider to choose the CJK fonts before the Latin fonts. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/713950/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
