Comment 21 for bug 659280

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 17:59, Cheng-Chia Tseng <email address hidden> wrote:
> I am not talking about preference with the dejavu fonts you like or not.
>
> Using ONE font to display English, Chinese, Japanese and other
> characters is what I am talking about to keep the consistance.
>
> Using different fonts to display characters respectively must break the
> harmony when all the different typefaces show up, such as you see DejaVu
> Englsih and WenQenYi Micro Hei Chinese characters are at one screen will
> never be more harmony with Only WenQenYi Micro Hei English and Chinese
> are at one screen. This is about art, about eye candy, and about
> harmony.
>
> I don't know why the developers tend to use DejaVu for English and WQY
> Micro Hei for Chinese for Chinese users. Is there anyone knows the
> reason?
>

I have already said, it's your own preference unless you can prove
majority of people are with your opinion.

Here is a fact:
Many people prefer the current settings, and many major distros have
already use similar solutions - then people are happier than before.

> By the way, I think editting the fontconfig settings which Ubuntu ships
> is someting like "Enhancement" or "Feature Request" that people should
> file a new one, and removing the bugs which cause the problems is what
> should do. I don't know whether you are confused by what I am saying or
> not...
>

It's a bug and it breaks things, which has few relationship to "feature".

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Regards,
Aron Xu