On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Rex Tsai <[email protected]> wrote:
> On the phone, the LANG/LANGUAGES env value are not changed. It's always > en_US.UTF-8. > I'm not sure I follow that: the LANG variable should change (as the LC_MESSAGES) should, otherwise you wouldn't be able to switch languages. Same for the LANGUAGE env var. Could you be a bit more specific on which environment variable you don't see changing? What's the output of the 'locale' command from the terminal app? Thanks! > > If fonts-wqy-microhei only, it rendered correctly. > > ** Attachment added: "fonts-wqy-only.png" > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-touch-meta/+bug/1346766/+attachment/4165235/+files/fonts-wqy-only.png > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1346766 > > Title: > Chinese in Ubuntu Touch should use Heiti style sans serif font > > Status in “ubuntu-touch-meta” package in Ubuntu: > Triaged > > Bug description: > Ubuntu Touch uses Kaiti style font as the main UI font for displaying > Chinese, which is not optimal as nowadays operating systems all use > Heiti style font for the UI, we should really change it asap. > > Currently there are two choices on Ubuntu, fonts-droid and wqy- > microhei. Below I will list out the pros and cons. > > wqy-microhei (DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf, modified): > - Pros: > - The advantage of wqy-microhei being its wider codepoint coverage, > for example it also contains Japanese Kanas and Korean Hanguls in one font. > The downside is it may be of lower quality than the original > DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf due to its lack of maintenance in recent years. > - Cons: > - I am not too much in favour of using wqy-microhei, the reason being > that it is basically a font that based on the Droid font > (DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf to be exact). > - Upstream has not updated wqy-microhei for long time, so it lacks any > new updates from the Droid font, although it may not be obvious to users. > - Another possible disadvantage of wqy-microhei is it includes more > latin characters, which may result to inconsistent glyphs being used. > > fonts-droid (DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf, original): > - Pros: > - The advantage is it has coverage of CJK ext. A [1], which > wqy-microhei does not provide. > -Cons: > - On the other hand, wqy-microhei has added some glyphs that the droid > font does not provide, I don't have the exact number of that but I believe > it's just a small number. > - The disadvantage is it does not include Korean Hangul, which can be > remedied with another Korean font, and it's not our current concern anyway. > > As an additional alternative, just a few days ago, Google released the > Noto Sans CJK fonts [2][3]: > > fonts-noto (Noto Sans CJK fonts): > - Pros: > - It takes care of different writing standards of Traditional Chinese, > Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean, which makes everyone happy (see > slide 13-14 of [3]) > - It covers Japanese and Korean as well > - Cons: > - Needs to be tested > - Bigger size than the other alternatives as a result of catering for > both Traditional and Simplified Chinese > - Not yet packaged [4] > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_Unified_Ideographs_Extension_A > [2] > http://googledevelopers.blogspot.de/2014/07/noto-cjk-font-that-is-complete.html > [3] > https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xIBCsqwrSxowmLQS7kJm9gM58-FmOIYlZWoRlgqtqE4/edit#slide=id.g36327fada_643 > [4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754926 > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-touch-meta/+bug/1346766/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1346766 Title: Chinese in Ubuntu Touch should use Heiti style sans serif font To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-touch-meta/+bug/1346766/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
