[Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

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This bug was fixed in the package fonts-noto-cjk -
1:1.004+repack2-1~ubuntu1

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fonts-noto-cjk (1:1.004+repack2-1~ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * No-change backport to 16.04 as SRU to fix display problems in Chromium.
(LP: #157)

 -- Iain Lane   Thu, 05 May 2016 15:28:24
+0100

** Changed in: fonts-noto-cjk (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

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[Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Fixed via autosync

** Changed in: fonts-noto-cjk (Ubuntu)
   Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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[Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

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** Changed in: fonts-noto-cjk (Debian)
   Status: New => Fix Released

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[Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #823374
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823374

** Also affects: fonts-noto-cjk (Debian) via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823374
   Importance: Unknown
   Status: Unknown

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[Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

** Description changed:

  [Impact]
  
  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK font
  weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult to
  read, and thus gives a bad user experience.
  
  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA
  
  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk
  
- installs 36 separate font files instead of a bundled OTC file. This
- works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.
+ installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super" file.
+ This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.
  
  [Test Case]
  
  To reproduce the bug:
  
  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.
  
  [Regression Potential]
  
- Due to ISO space concerns, the solution includes the creation of the
- fonts-noto-cjk-extras binary, which will not be seeded. fonts-noto-cjk
- installs only the 8 most important font files, while the rest are
- installed by fonts-noto-cjk-extras. Consequently 28 fonts will be
- dropped when the 16.04 users upgrade to the new fonts-noto-cjk package.
- However,
- 
- - they will be prompted to install fonts-noto-cjk-extras via Language
-   Support,
- 
- - fixing the Chromium/Chrome issue carries greater weight, and
- 
- - it's not a regression compared to 14.04 or 15.10, since the previous
-   package for rendering Chinese contents (fonts-droid) does not include
-   all those font weights.
+ This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
+ coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.
  
  [Original description]
  
  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall back
  on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the package
  and then manually download the font from Google website and install it
  to make the regular weight available
  
  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

** No longer affects: language-selector (Ubuntu Xenial)

** No longer affects: language-selector (Ubuntu)

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[Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

A discussion with Aron Xu and Sebastien Bacher on IRC resulted in the
idea that we create an additional binary package and move some of the
font files to that package. So now there are two .deb files in the PPA:
fonts-noto-cjk and fonts-noto-cjk-extras.

fonts-noto-cjk installs these font files:

NotoSansCJKjp-Bold.otf
NotoSansCJKjp-Regular.otf
NotoSansCJKkr-Bold.otf
NotoSansCJKkr-Regular.otf
NotoSansCJKsc-Bold.otf
NotoSansCJKsc-Regular.otf
NotoSansCJKtc-Bold.otf
NotoSansCJKtc-Regular.otf

With those files, the size of the .deb file is 85 MiB (the size of the
.deb currently in the archive is 71 MiB).

fonts-noto-cjk-extras, which is optional, installs the other 28 font
files. fonts-noto-cjk-extras will not be included in the ISO files, but
Chinese users will be prompted to install it via Language Support.

** Also affects: language-selector (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Also affects: language-selector (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Also affects: fonts-noto-cjk (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Changed in: fonts-noto-cjk (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: fonts-noto-cjk (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed => In Progress

** Changed in: fonts-noto-cjk (Ubuntu)
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)

** Changed in: fonts-noto-cjk (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: fonts-noto-cjk (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: fonts-noto-cjk (Ubuntu Xenial)
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu Xenial)
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)

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