** Description changed: 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 oblique and italic - styles. WenQuanYi Micro Hei font covers Latin, Chinese, Japanese and - Korean, but only has regular style + 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 oblique, bold and - italic styles. + 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. 3. Selecting fonts including Chinese (Taiwan) characters first in the configuration provides the best compatibilty for Chinese with those programs which do not follow the fallback machenism of fontconfig, such as Evince. The programs like that only pick up the first font, DejaVu font, and displaying squares for Chinese characters. 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.
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