Comment 28 for bug 1834406

On 2019-07-29 20:40, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote:
> Shouldn't this be fixed in Xenial as well?

There are two reasons why I didn't propose it for Xenial too.

In Xenial Noto Sans CJK is not the default font in Ubuntu for rendering Japanese, but Takao is. So to support the rendering of the "square era name reiwa" glyph in Xenial, Takao is the package which should be handled at first hand.

Also, Xenial is the first cycle where we use fonts-noto-cjk in Ubuntu (for Chinese), and the introduction of that package with its somewhat demanding OTC packaging format forced us into a last minute upgrade of fontconfig.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2016-April/039303.html

So without having tested, my gut feeling says that backporting fonts-noto-cjk to Xenial would be higher risk than was the case for Bionic.