[Bug 1258778] Re: IBus input candidates not shown in GNOME Fallback session

2015-12-17 Thread Mingye Wang
albertsmuktupavels, at first I thought someone should open a separate bug on GNOME for recording that popup TODO.. Since it's now officially (i.e. by you, a GNOME & Ubuntu Dev) used as the bug that corresponds to this one, I added the remote bug watch. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1595414] [NEW] Awful system-wise generic selection for CJK

2016-06-23 Thread Mingye Wang
Public bug reported: 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

[Bug 1595414] Re: Awful system-wise generic selection for CJK

2016-06-24 Thread Mingye Wang
My current suggestion is to construct a test HTML like this: UKai/UMing test /* Change the needle font here */ body { font-family: sans-serif; } 漢字汉字 @ zh 漢字汉字 @ ja 漢字汉字 @ en After removing UKai from my system, it begins to show UMing. * * * > as far as I can retell, should be

[Bug 1595414] Re: Awful system-wise generic selection for CJK

2016-06-24 Thread Mingye Wang
Just an uninteresting side note, setting font-family to either 'Monospace' or monospace in the test case above shows a very proportional font for ja. This should be a separate report, but just in case I forget: $ LC_ALL='ja_JP.UTF-8' fc-match 'Monospace' DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf: "Droid Sans

[Bug 1468027] Re: change default CJK fonts to Noto CJK

2016-01-10 Thread Mingye Wang
happyaron: O again, rendering, rendering, rendering. For systems with TT Bytecode support, be5invis has a release of SHS with his sfdhanautohint (for CJK) and ttfautohint applied called [Inziu]. Follow the link and fetch inziu-20\d{10}. These generally look better on lower ppem sizes (common for

[Bug 1468027] Re: change default CJK fonts to Noto CJK

2016-01-10 Thread Mingye Wang
My decaying brain… I mean \d{6}. I should just say ‘anything that's not iosevka’. * * * Well the biggest blocker here is actually some application support things. Qt show poor overall handling of some OpenType features used in SHS, the most significant being LOCL used in all those Super files.

[Bug 1535214] Re: zh_TW is not set as fallback locale when selecting Hong Kong as location

2016-01-19 Thread Mingye Wang
Assuming this a language-selector problem since this is the only thing to choose language during installation that I can think of so far. https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/wily/language- selector/wily/revision/39 looks revelant, but it actually happened on 2008-03-06 -- almost

[Bug 1000666] Re: Mojibake displaying Unicode Table

2016-02-19 Thread Mingye Wang
Failed to reproduce using w3m version w3m/0.5.3+git20151119 (xenial), thru an SSH link using mintty UTF-8. The line in the header looks interesting though. The actual encoding of the webpage is UTF-8. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1468027] Re: change default CJK fonts to Noto CJK

2016-03-11 Thread Mingye Wang
** No longer affects: fontconfig ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #94505 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94505 ** Also affects: language-selector via https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94505 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** No longer

[Bug 1468027] Re: change default CJK fonts to Noto CJK

2016-03-11 Thread Mingye Wang
gunnarhj: > Want to say, though, that the config file you mentioned in the upstream bug > report doesn't have anything to do with it. It's not in the Ubuntu archive > yet. Umm… The good news is they seen to point to the same problem, and on JeffBai's machine that's almost how the config was

[Bug 1468027] Re: change default CJK fonts to Noto CJK

2016-03-11 Thread Mingye Wang
So updates from fontconfig for those who doesn't want to wait for the bugzilla crawler.. Fontconfig 2.11.1 is ancient, and support for demilight has been added in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81453, which ended up in those oddly-numbered releases like 2.11.91 or so. The current

[Bug 1556332] [NEW] Playing m4a with gst-launch on Lubuntu Xenial causes stack smashing

2016-03-11 Thread Mingye Wang
Public bug reported: gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg-5ubuntu1~vivid $ gst-launch playbin2 uri=file:///home/wax/sound//.m4a Setting pipeline to PAUSED ... Pipeline is PREROLLING ... *** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/bin/gst-launch-0.10 terminated Aborted (core dumped) ** Affects: gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

[Bug 1468027] Re: change default CJK fonts to Noto CJK

2016-03-12 Thread Mingye Wang
Let me file the fc demi report separately then. A fix is always better than a hack, and with Noto Sans CJK hacked there are still a whole bunch of Notos and other weight-rich fonts. Just realized my PPA pkg is based on 2.11.1-0ubuntu6 instead of current ubuntu8, hmm. Can't see xenial on bzr...

[Bug 1468027] Re: change default CJK fonts to Noto CJK

2016-03-11 Thread Mingye Wang
Weights shouldn't be 'specified' at all under normal circumstances (like in AOSC OS). Try matching for something like Sans:weight=regular? It should be good if someone can figure out which weight LibreOffice was asking for… -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1468027] Re: change default CJK fonts to Noto CJK

2016-04-07 Thread Mingye Wang
Not sure. Some fontconfig tracing env vars might be useful for the Skia LegacyCreateTypeface part I guess... * * * In addition to the weight matching problem, the screenshot for Chromium in #113 gives the JP variant instead of TW. Perhaps I should try to get someone to reproduce this in other

[Bug 1556457] Re: [FFe] Demilight (OS/2 weight=350) confuses fontconfig

2016-04-05 Thread Mingye Wang
** No longer affects: fontconfig (Arch Linux) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1556457 Title: [FFe] Demilight (OS/2 weight=350) confuses fontconfig To manage notifications about this

[Bug 1560548] Re: Redundant fontconfig files

2016-04-08 Thread Mingye Wang
Maybe you can make the bindings locale-specific with something like ? Regarding the current config, regardless of if the files are being dropped, I have to say that UKai shouldn't really be in one of sans, serif or mono -- Kai is more like 'cursive' (not 'Comic Sans' -- think of script typefaces

[Bug 1566651] Re: Blurry fonts after update to fontconfig 2.11.1-0ubuntu9

2016-04-06 Thread Mingye Wang
Does force-regenerating font cache using `fc-cache -f` help? The commit message in 3cd573f says: > This may breaks the cache but not bumping in this change sets at this moment. > please be aware if you want to try it and run fc-cache before/after to avoid > the weird thing against it. I didn't

[Bug 1556457] Re: [Resolved Upstream] Demilight (OS/2 weight=350) confuses fontconfig

2016-04-02 Thread Mingye Wang
** Description changed: See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81453 and bug 1468027. Fontconfig lacks support for many OpenType/TrueType OS/2 font weight values. This causes a bunch of problems, like mixing up Demilight (weight=350) and Regular (weight=400). Although

[Bug 1462311] Re: proftpd mod_copy issue (CVE-2015-3306)

2016-04-21 Thread Mingye Wang
** Description changed: The CVE-2015-3306 problem is arround for some time now and is not fixed in 12.04 and 14.04 LTS versions. http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-3306.html I also tested it with telnet. I can copy files without any authentication if

[Bug 1578749] Re: fontconfig substitutes not considered by libgdiplus

2016-05-05 Thread Mingye Wang
** Description changed: libgdiplus' cairo backend only takes the fontconfig *match* to render glyphs in cairo, with zero considerations for substitutes. This causes significant problems when a developer using WinForms tries to display some CJK glyphs in "Sans", while expecting system-like

[Bug 1578749] [NEW] fontconfig substitutes not considered by libgdiplus

2016-05-05 Thread Mingye Wang
Public bug reported: libgdiplus' cairo backend only takes the fontconfig *match* to render glyphs in cairo, with zero considerations for substitutes. This causes significant problems when a developer using WinForms tries to display some CJK glyphs in "Sans", while expecting system-like handling

[Bug 1577241] [NEW] Sys.Drawing.SystemFonts does not return UI fonts being used in system

2016-05-01 Thread Mingye Wang
Public bug reported: The current mono implementation of System.Drawing.SystemFonts is hard- coded to return "Microsoft Sans Serif" and "Tahoma" for system font queries. Even though this matches MSDN-documented values for Windows, this violates the intended semantics of this class, and produces

[Bug 1578749] Re: fontconfig substitutes not considered by libgdiplus

2016-05-05 Thread Mingye Wang
Regarding that test case, consider resizing the button explicitly or just use the CJK string "我是方框。", since the button by default has a fixed size. In https://github.com/AOSC-Dev/aosc-os-abbs/issues/224, JeffBai (github:MingcongBai) found out that using pango does fix the problem. The pango

[Bug 1638959] Re: Consider updating from 2.12 RC4 to 2.12.1 for 17.04

2017-05-12 Thread Mingye Wang
Adding inkscape-devlibs64 for a similar update, per https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape- devlibs64/trunk/view/head:/readme.txt. (What is FreeType 2 18.2.12, by the way?) ** Also affects: inkscape-devlibs64 Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug

[Bug 502610]

2018-08-24 Thread Mingye Wang
> So how about listing sans-serif (Hei) before bitmap then? Bitmaps are more like a compromise to poor hinting tech (could not handle the high stroke densities in Han (especially Hant) glyphs) + small pixel sizes (and perhaps small disk space) in the old days. Vectors can get rendered into a mess

[Bug 502610]

2018-08-24 Thread Mingye Wang
Silly mistake spotted. > which is actually when the "Song" (the Chinese dynasty after Ming) Song is before Ming, which follows Yuan (Mongolian rule). During the Song dynasty, the printing industry reached an apex, thanks to movable type. By Ming, the Kai-script-like typeface for movable blocks

[Bug 502610]

2018-08-24 Thread Mingye Wang
Jeff Bai and I are currently working on a newer ordering of this file for the CJK part at https://github.com/AOSC-Dev /aosc-os-abbs/issues/201. Hopefully we will come up with a modernized version this weekend or so. We are mainly focused on these points: * Separate sans (hei), serif (ming/song)

[Bug 521163]

2018-08-24 Thread Mingye Wang
> So how about listing sans-serif (Hei) before bitmap then? Bitmaps are more like a compromise to poor hinting tech (could not handle the high stroke densities in Han (especially Hant) glyphs) + small pixel sizes (and perhaps small disk space) in the old days. Vectors can get rendered into a mess

[Bug 521163]

2018-08-24 Thread Mingye Wang
Jeff Bai and I are currently working on a newer ordering of this file for the CJK part at https://github.com/AOSC-Dev /aosc-os-abbs/issues/201. Hopefully we will come up with a modernized version this weekend or so. We are mainly focused on these points: * Separate sans (hei), serif (ming/song)

[Bug 521163]

2018-08-24 Thread Mingye Wang
Silly mistake spotted. > which is actually when the "Song" (the Chinese dynasty after Ming) Song is before Ming, which follows Yuan (Mongolian rule). During the Song dynasty, the printing industry reached an apex, thanks to movable type. By Ming, the Kai-script-like typeface for movable blocks