Comment 26 for bug 206018

I personally would suggest we use Song-Ti for Simplified Chinese, because it
is just a popular font that has been used around for many many years. There
is no need to change to something else just to differentiate from microsoft
software, unless we have some copyright issues.

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:03 PM, fangq <email address hidden> wrote:

> If you are unhappy about the outline part of Zen Hei, I can fully
> understand that. The outline quality of the font is still a long way
> from commercial ones. However, on the other hand, I can also see that
> the outline fonts are entirely "usable" (as screen fonts), particularly
> for those frequently used Chinese characters. It simply take years of
> efforts to polish all the rough edges and make a good outline font, and
> we are doing it everyday, you are welcome to report "sub-optimal"
> characters or polish by yourself using our wiki.
>
> But if you are complaining about the wqy bitmaps vs firefly's bitmaps,
> that does seem to be a bit surprising. Based on my own observation from
> most Chinese Linux online forums (particularly
> http://forum.ubuntu.com.cn/), it is relatively rare to see similar
> comments among simplified Chinese users (for traditional Chinese users,
> some of them may prefer the Ming-Ti-styled serif decorations in
> firefly's bitmaps).
>
> I do support for a poll between different choices for CJK fonts. I
> actually thought about doing it long time ago. A survey about the
> preference of bitmap vs vector, Song vs Ming vs Hei, wqy bitmaps vs
> firefly's vs simsun vs OpenSUSE Founder fonts will be very informative
> for CJK font developers.
>
> One thing I want to point out though, the 12pt CJK glyphs in wqy's fonts
> are exact copies of Chinese National Standard GB19966-2005, which was
> "professionally" developed by Beijing Founder Electronics (Fang Zheng).
> Glyphs of other sizes in wqy's bitmaps were "standardized" using 12pt as
> reference.
>
> --
> ttf-wqy-zenhei and other Chinese fonts got mixed up where the same style
> is expected
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/206018
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