fangq wrote:
> a second thought, this may indeed imply a bug: shouldn't the default
> Chinese sans/serif be the same under en locals and zh locales?

I would say that's a whishlist item, not a bug. ;)

> I think this basically means the file 65-nonlatin.conf should list wqy-
> zenhei in the list of sans-serif fonts and above other Chinese fonts,
> and possibly Japanese fonts as well.
> 
> do you agree with me?

not necessarily. I see a potential conflict with Japanese users here:
they prefer Japanese glyph shapes.
65-nonlatin.conf comes from upstream fontconfig and generally we don't
touch those but add additional config files if we see a need for them.
Therefor we provided the 69-language-selector-$lang files, to give the
user the choice which CJK fonts they prefer. For non-CJK locale users,
the only way to activate those settings is to use fontconfig-voodoo on
the command line.
However, our preferred solution is to give the user full control over
his font settings: that's what I'm currently working on. A GUI called
font-selector, which gives the user full control over font preference,
hinting, anti-aliasing and embedded bitmap usage.
Bottom line: every user has different preferences, providing one
configuration that fits everyone is impossible.

In an ideal world, everyone would use markup text with language tags for
every paragraph or word. Then we could choose the appropriate font
automatically.
Therefor, I think we should add one config file which sets the
appropriate fonts for each language tag environment, then at least web
browsers should be able to get the correct font if the text is tagged
appropriately (which is unfortunately very seldom).

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64-ttf-arphic-uming.conf makes Uming default sans-serif over wqy-zenhei
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/300191
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