Comment 41 for bug 206018

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Wenzhuo Zhang wrote:
> Pan, Shi Zhu wrote:
>> Just be curious, what is the definition of "where the same style is
>> expected"?
>
> Common sense, or resemblance to what you see in Windows.

Which version of Windows are you talking about?

And why is it common sense to enforce one font style only? At least here
in Taiwan most chinese newspapers use a Hei Ti font for the headings and
a Song/Ming Ti font for the rest of the article texts. Therefor I don't
see what's wrong with webpages which prefer different font styles for
different parts of the website... this is mostly done to have a visual
distinction between the different parts of the website and is fully
intended.

If you don't like that, I suggest that you either ask the website author
why he has done so, or change the settings on your local computer. There
are a number of ways to prefer UMing as the default font for everything,
starting from editing the font preferences in your browser, to just
removing the package from your system.

> If you choose Zen Hei as the default font, make sure it is in the most
> preferred font for some common Chinese font aliases as well.
>
> I have tried my best to get used to Zen Hei. I had to remove
> conf.d/63-wqy-zenhei.conf mainly because 1) 14px makes a big difference
> than 13px on a 12" XGA LCD; 2) the width of Latin character glyphs in
> Zen Hei doesn't seem to match that of CJK characters.

Latin characters usually don't have the same width like CJK glyphs.
Either they are Monospaced and therefor half the width of a CJK glyph,
or they are proportional and don't fit at all to CJK glyph widths. Most
Western fonts are proportional and even on Windows, you will find that
the SimSun and MingLiU Chinese fonts come in two versions, one with
Monospaced Latin glyphs and the other with Proportional Latin glyphs.

In short, if you don't like ZenHei, just remove it from your system.
It's as easy as that.

As a more general note:
It will be impossible to find a font setting that fits everyone! People
just have different preferences, regarding default font for the
languages they use in various locale environments, whether or not
bitmaps, anti-aliasing, hinting, etc. should be used or even which
hinting level for which font and which application is preferred. And of
course people have different screens (LCD or CRT) and different
screensizes and resolutions and therefor prefer different font settings.
So, for the distribution we try to give the users an acceptable default
setting. And as many users prefer a Hei Ti font for their desktop, we
chose to include WQY ZenHei and set it as preferred font for sans-serif.
And if any user, including you, does not like that, he is free to change
his local settings. But I and many others do not agree with the claim
that it should be expected to have only one Chinese font visible on the
system. Even Windows come with a multitude of Chinese fonts installed by
default. And if websites request the rendering to be done by serif,
sans-serif fonts or a mixture of them, it will surely be done so.

Just my 2 NT$...
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