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ZhengPeng Hou (zhengpeng-hou) wrote : Re: [Bug 312435] Re: Droid Sans Fallback as default CJK fonts

1 we're in deep freeze already.
2 only cover the gb2312 is not acceptable to us, even in china we have
GBT standard for linux which will require gb18030
3 Wen Quan Yi project is working on te sub-project named 微米黑, this
will be better in future

2009/3/24 fishoo <email address hidden>:
> Droid Sans Fallback for chinese include gb2312 charset only. although
> it's not enough, the font is made by people from large company and the
> glyph of the font is beautiful than that of wqy ZenHei. Just like the
> default english font --Bitstream Vera Sans, the font is nice, but the
> number of character is too small, so the DejaVu font is used for
> complementarity.
>
> btw, DejaVu is based on Bitstream, and wenq WeimiHei is also based on
> Droid Sans Fallback. WeimiHei covers gbk and will extend to gb18030
> soon, it's not mature though.
>
> the sans font order:
>
> if the WeimiHei is mature enough for use
> 1 Droid Sans Fallback
> 2 wenq WeimiHei
> 3 wenq ZenHei
>
> if the WeimiHei is not mature
> 1 Droid Sans Fallback
> 2 wenq ZenHei
>
> I accessed the forum of wenq before, and i found that they also endorse
> the Droid Sans Fallback or weimihei was better than zenhei. Droid Sans
> Fallback is totally made up of module.
>
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> Droid Sans Fallback as default CJK fonts
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/312435
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