Time to drop 69-language-selector-zh-??.conf?
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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language-selector (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Gunnar Hjalmarsson |
Bug Description
With the transition to Noto Sans CJK as default font for Chinese, we have established a fontconfig configuration for rendering Chinese under an *English* locale via these three files:
/etc/fonts/
/etc/fonts/
/etc/fonts/
(I questioned the need for the two latter in bug #1560548, but I think we'd better consider the need for the 69-language-
So, if I have understood the feedback from Chinese users correctly, both Chinese and Japanese are properly rendered under an English locale in Ubuntu 16.04.
It's my belief that what's happening if you switch to a Chinese locale is that one of the 69-language-
If I'm right, I think we should drop 69-language-
Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
For Noto Sans font, it's just for the Sans Serif family. Still for Serif fonts, we still rely on other local font sets. The fallback settings in those fontconfig files should still be needed.
Japanese uses Chinese characters but with some variates. That's why a local font is preferred. Noto Sans provides all glyphs for different locale, which meets the needs. Just currently only Sans Serif is provided for Noto Sans.