Comment 21 for bug 1346766

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Rex Tsai <email address hidden> wrote:

> On the phone, the LANG/LANGUAGES env value are not changed. It's always
> en_US.UTF-8.
>

I'm not sure I follow that: the LANG variable should change (as the
LC_MESSAGES) should, otherwise you wouldn't be able to switch languages.
Same for the LANGUAGE env var.

Could you be a bit more specific on which environment variable you don't
see changing? What's the output of the 'locale' command from the terminal
app?

Thanks!

>
> If fonts-wqy-microhei only, it rendered correctly.
>
> ** Attachment added: "fonts-wqy-only.png"
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> Title:
> Chinese in Ubuntu Touch should use Heiti style sans serif font
>
> Status in “ubuntu-touch-meta” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Ubuntu Touch uses Kaiti style font as the main UI font for displaying
> Chinese, which is not optimal as nowadays operating systems all use
> Heiti style font for the UI, we should really change it asap.
>
> Currently there are two choices on Ubuntu, fonts-droid and wqy-
> microhei. Below I will list out the pros and cons.
>
> wqy-microhei (DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf, modified):
> - Pros:
> - The advantage of wqy-microhei being its wider codepoint coverage,
> for example it also contains Japanese Kanas and Korean Hanguls in one font.
> The downside is it may be of lower quality than the original
> DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf due to its lack of maintenance in recent years.
> - Cons:
> - I am not too much in favour of using wqy-microhei, the reason being
> that it is basically a font that based on the Droid font
> (DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf to be exact).
> - Upstream has not updated wqy-microhei for long time, so it lacks any
> new updates from the Droid font, although it may not be obvious to users.
> - Another possible disadvantage of wqy-microhei is it includes more
> latin characters, which may result to inconsistent glyphs being used.
>
> fonts-droid (DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf, original):
> - Pros:
> - The advantage is it has coverage of CJK ext. A [1], which
> wqy-microhei does not provide.
> -Cons:
> - On the other hand, wqy-microhei has added some glyphs that the droid
> font does not provide, I don't have the exact number of that but I believe
> it's just a small number.
> - The disadvantage is it does not include Korean Hangul, which can be
> remedied with another Korean font, and it's not our current concern anyway.
>
> As an additional alternative, just a few days ago, Google released the
> Noto Sans CJK fonts [2][3]:
>
> fonts-noto (Noto Sans CJK fonts):
> - Pros:
> - It takes care of different writing standards of Traditional Chinese,
> Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean, which makes everyone happy (see
> slide 13-14 of [3])
> - It covers Japanese and Korean as well
> - Cons:
> - Needs to be tested
> - Bigger size than the other alternatives as a result of catering for
> both Traditional and Simplified Chinese
> - Not yet packaged [4]
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_Unified_Ideographs_Extension_A
> [2]
> http://googledevelopers.blogspot.de/2014/07/noto-cjk-font-that-is-complete.html
> [3]
> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xIBCsqwrSxowmLQS7kJm9gM58-FmOIYlZWoRlgqtqE4/edit#slide=id.g36327fada_643
> [4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754926
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