A simple test on 14.04 is to rename the symlink /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-arphic-ukai.conf
to /etc/fonts/conf.d/66-fonts-arphic-ukai.conf -------------------^ $ LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 fc-match -a | grep -iE '(ar pl|droid)' | head -7 DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf: "Droid Sans Fallback" "Regular" uming.ttc: "AR PL UMing CN" "Light" uming.ttc: "AR PL UMing HK" "Light" uming.ttc: "AR PL UMing TW" "Light" ukai.ttc: "AR PL UKai CN" "Book" ukai.ttc: "AR PL UKai HK" "Book" ukai.ttc: "AR PL UKai TW" "Book" Would that improve things? It would give UKai lower precedence than the Chinese fonts preferred via 65-nonlatin.conf, but OTOH the latter are not included in the Chinese language support in Ubuntu 14.04+. -- 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
