Comment 13 for bug 555184

In fact, Fang Qian has written a gtk+ based gui application for this.

Though I personally think it is way too overkill to write a gui
application for this simple task, a less-than-5-line CLI script is
enough for this. At least the CLI does not introduce gtk+ dependency
to kde users.

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Yunkwan <email address hidden> wrote:
> 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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> default chinese font isn't ttf-wqy-microhei
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/555184
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