Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: fontconfig-config
Sympotom:
I'm using Ubuntu with German locale but want to study Chinese. By
default Ubuntu does a very bad job for selecting a font for Chinese
characters. Simplified characters are displayed in a different font than
non-simplified characters and some characters like 你 where totally
illegible. Ubuntu does by default provide two good fonts for Chinese
characters (ttf-arphic-ukai and ttf-arphic-uming), but they are not
used.
Reason:
The configuration file /etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-nonlatin.conf, which is part of
fontconfig-config mentions AR PL SungtiL GB, AR PL Mingti2L Big5, AR PL KaitiM
GB and AR PL KaitiM Big5, but these fonts are not included in a standard
install of Ubuntu as they are superseded by AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni and AR PL
ZenKai Uni and those fonts are not mentioned in
/etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-nonlatin.conf.
Solution:
Add both AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni and AR PL ZenKai Uni to
/etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-nonlatin.conf.
** Affects: fontconfig (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Bad selection of font for Chinese characters
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/134683
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