Please note that if you use a Chinese locale, it's 69-language-selector- zh-??.conf which is effective, not 65-fonts-arphic-*.conf.
As regards the latter, one thought is to change it so UMing is preferred over UKai. Another thought is to drop the sans-serif items in 65-fonts- arphic-*.conf. Probably we'd need to test to see how Firefox behaves with those changes. Also, this is reasonably not a trusty specific issue. It would be good if we could study this in the current development release (yakkety) first, and then backport if we figure out something better. @Aron: Any thoughts? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-arphic-ukai in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1595414 Title: Awful generic selection for zh in Firefox Status in fonts-arphic-ukai package in Ubuntu: New Status in fonts-arphic-uming package in Ubuntu: New Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu: New Status in fonts-arphic-ukai source package in Trusty: New Status in fonts-arphic-uming source package in Trusty: New Status in language-selector source package in Trusty: New Bug description: In https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/wily/fonts- arphic-ukai/wily/revision/6, UMing and UKai are set as generics for fonts. However, this set of generics is completely intolerable -- setting UKai as a generic is like setting Zapfino and/or Comic Sans as a system-wise generic, while UMing as a normal (just a bit thin) serif sounds a bit better. This yields terrible results on non-Chinese systems with non-Chinese lang-attributed websites, like Twitter, on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS after installing Chinese language support which includes the two arphic fonts mentioned in this report. This problem is similar to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20911, a long-standing system-global fontconfig non-latin fallback problem. See also bug #1560548 where these generic settings are considered as 'redundant' and proposed for deletion. I have mentioned a third-person report about such selection in #1560548 previously, but I have just reproduced this bug by myself by installing zh-cn support by mistake. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-arphic-ukai/+bug/1595414/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
