Using defalut fontconfig's configure , display of chinese font's is too ugly.

[ZhengPeng Hou]

After freshintall of dapper now , it may be unuseful to chinese users, for user should do too many configure works manually, then they may have a acceptable appearance .This phenomena is due to the display of chinese fonts , now we have quite excellent chinese fonts like: ttf-arphic-uming, ttf-arphic-ukai, and xfonts-wqy, but they haven't been configured suitablly, also if we have changes in configure of fontconfig , it will not only affect chinese users, but also other language users, such as Japanese .

[Jiahua Huang (huangjiahua)]

It seems the old arphic fonts will be remove from ubuntu, so, fontconfig needs to be changed to assign different priorities when we switch over to ukai/uming.

[Jiahua Huang (huangjiahua)]

And, the old arphic fonts mean ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp, ttf-arphic-gkai00mp, ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp, ttf-arphic-bkai00mp.
The ukai/uming (or the new arphic fonts) mean ttf-arphic-ukai and ttf-arphic-uming.

I think it can remove the old arphic fonts in configure of fontconfig , instead of ttf-arphic-ukai and ttf-arphic-uming.

[Simos Xenitellis  (simosx)]

Can you please provide
1. a screenshot and
2. a simple test file in Chinese
so that we can try to replicate?

We have a similar issue in Greek and this helped to get a better response.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for yoru bugreport.

Later versions of ubuntu use a new mechanism to setup the fontconfig priorities based on the default language. Could you please run "gnome-language-selector" (or qt-language-selector, depending on your desktop environment) and set your default language there? This should setup your fontconfig as well. After a login/logout you should be able to see better quality fonts. Please let me know if it works for you.

Thanks,
 Michael

P.S. More information on this is available on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperL10nSprint

[depp (li-sun)]

What if i don't change locale to zh_CN.*, just want my chinese display correctly?
Under Gnome it's no problem, but Konqueror is working definitely in another way.
Konqueror cannot display chinese correctly it the locale is not zh_CN.*

[atie (atie-at-matrix)]

Try sudo /usr/bin/fontconfig-voodoo -f -s zh_CN, which creates a link of /etc/fonts/language-selector.conf to /usr/share/language-selector/fontconfig/zh_CN.

You can use the fontconfig for zh_CN without changing your locale.

[depp (li-sun)]

This works well with Gnome, but not KDE(or just Konqueror).
You can check www.mindmeters.com, it's definitely a chinese page, but konqueror doesn't display it correctly.