Chinese characters are shown in a heavier weight than the ones provided by the Ubuntu font

Bug #1568757 reported by Jin
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Canonical System Image
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Bug Description

Description:
Ubuntu touch shows Chinese characters in bold always

Reproduce Steps:
    a) Launch Settings
    b) Select 中文 as "Display langua..."
    c) Observe the Chinese characters after reboot
    d) (Observe the WiFi scan APs which includes Chinese characters)

Expected Result:
The Chinese characters must have normal fonts and bold fonts, ...etc.

Actual Result:
Ubuntu touch only shows Chinese characters as bold.

Occurrence:
10/10 (100%)

Hardware Information:
    current build number: 413
    device name: mako
    channel: ubuntu-touch/rc-proposed/ubuntu
    last update: 2016-04-08 17:33:14
    version version: 413
    version ubuntu: 20160407
    version device: 20160401.1
    version custom: 20160407

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Jin (jindallo) wrote :
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You-Sheng Yang (vicamo) wrote :

This affects all devices actually. Not only Mako. Just take it for example.

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Jin (jindallo) wrote :

Ubuntu touch fonts.conf could be checked as well,
    /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
for such the case in step d) no any translation need for scanned SSIDs,
I assume the string is parsed from lower layer according to fonts.conf.

summary: - Chinese characters always show in bold
+ Chinese characters are shown in a heavier weight than the ones provided
+ by the Ubuntu font
affects: ubuntu-font-family → canonical-devices-system-image
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Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan) wrote :

Does this only happen in the wifi display? Is other content displayed normally? and has this changed recently or is this a day one issue?

Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
status: New → Incomplete
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