Comment 87 for bug 1468027

But this 64-language-selector-prefer.conf could lead to regression for
Chinese, unfortunately.

> On Mar 23, 2016, at 00:36, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> I'm getting back about Chinese and Japanese rendering with a non-CJKV
> locale. We need to reach a conclusion as regards the default
> configuration.
>
> Currently 64-language-selector-prefer.conf looks like this:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
> <fontconfig>
> <alias>
> <family>sans-serif</family>
> <prefer>
> <family>Noto Sans CJK JP Regular</family>
> <family>Noto Sans CJK JP</family>
> <family>Noto Sans CJK SC Regular</family>
> <family>Noto Sans CJK SC</family>
> <family>Noto Sans CJK TC Regular</family>
> <family>Noto Sans CJK TC</family>
> </prefer>
> </alias>
> <alias>
> <family>monospace</family>
> <prefer>
> <family>Noto Sans Mono CJK JP</family>
> <family>Noto Sans Mono CJK SC</family>
> <family>Noto Sans Mono CJK TC</family>
> </prefer>
> </alias>
> </fontconfig>
>
> That configuration seems to be an improvement for Japanese (bug
> #1540063). I'm assuming that the Japanese lines in the file have nothing
> to do with 'the Takao in Firefox issue' which tomoe_musashi mentioned in
> comment #81. (Please let me know if I'm wrong here. If I'm not, I take
> it that we can keep the current version of 64-language-selector-
> prefer.conf in Ubuntu 16.04.)
>
> Possibly 'the Takao in Firefox issue' is a Firefox bug.
>
> @tomoe_musashi: You mentioned that modifying 65-nonlatin.conf may fix
> that issue. Can you please let us know about the change you made?
>
> FYI I filed bug #1560548, but I don't think it needs to be fixed in
> 16.04.
>
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> Title:
> change default CJK fonts to Noto CJK
>
> Status in Fontconfig:
> Fix Released
> Status in kubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
> Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in lubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
> Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in xubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> just realize that fonts-noto-cjk is available in the repository, finally its packaged.
> i don't really know about korean community.
> But for Chinese and Japanese community, i think that the answer is clear.
> noto-cjk is definitely better what we had before, like fonts- wqy and fonts-droid.
> Android community had received these complains for years, finally they got them fixed on lollipop.
> Fedora also set it as default chinese font start from F21.
> and of course, i still hope that ubuntu could drop those 69-language-selector fontconfig files, just like what F13 did.
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