Comment 12 for bug 555184

then, why not write a script to let people change the default Asian font
easily? like the im-swtich script that let us switch the default input
method.

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Qianqian Fang <email address hidden> wrote:

> On 04/10/2010 12:19 AM, Dsegun Ludice wrote:
> > I think this bug is already mixed two issues. The reporter said "the
> > system is not using this font as the default chinese font".
>
> all I am saying is we need to tease apart the
> bug bits from a wishlist. Issue 1 is a bug, issue 2 is
> a wishlist. I bet you can not solve issue 1 solely
> by bumping the priority of microhei; because if you
> do that, Japanese Kanji will be shown in microhei,
> and it will be another bug.
>
> > For the
> > second issue, i personally think bitmap should not appear in a modern
> > operating system.
>
> I agree that this is likely true for Latin fonts, but for
> Chinese, this was not that clear, at least not as many non-CJK
> developers thought it was. The only data we have related
> to Chinese font preference is the poll at Ubuntu Chinese
> forum a few years ago. It showed a 7:3 split for
> vector:bitmap preferred users from >300 voters.
> True, bitmaps users are minority, but I won't call
> 30% negligible.
>
> --
> default chinese font isn't ttf-wqy-microhei
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/555184
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> Status in Ubuntu Translations (internationalization and localization):
> Triaged
> Status in “fontconfig” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “language-support-fonts-zh-hans” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> ttf-wqy-microhei is installed in Lucid by default. However... the system is
> not using this font as the default chinese font. it's using an ungly chinese
> font... sometimes，bitmap fonts are used. it looks weird.
> hope this can be fix soon.
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