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 system-wise generic, while UMing as a normal (just a bit thin) serif sounds a bit better. This yields terrible results on non-Chinese systems with non-Chinese lang-attributed websites, like Twitter, on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS after installing Chinese language support which includes the two arphic fonts mentioned in this report.
This problem is similar to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20911, a long-standing system-global fontconfig non-latin fallback problem. See also bug #1560548 where these generic settings are considered as 'redundant' and proposed for deletion. I have mentioned a third-person report about such selection in #1560548 previously, but I have just reproduced this bug by myself by installing zh-cn support by mistake. ** Affects: fonts-arphic-ukai (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: fonts-arphic-uming (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: fonts-arphic-ukai (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Description changed: 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 system-wise generic, while UMing as a normal (just a bit thin) serif sounds a bit better. This yields terrible results on non-Chinese systems with non-Chinese lang-attributed websites, like Twitter, at least on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS after installing Chinese language support which includes the two arphic fonts mentioned in this report. This problem is similar to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20911, a long-standing - system-global fontconfig non-latin fallback problem. See also #1560548 - where these generic settings are considered as 'unneeded' and proposed - for deletion. I have mentioned a third-person report about such + system-global fontconfig non-latin fallback problem. See also bug + #1560548 where these generic settings are considered as 'unneeded' and + proposed for deletion. I have mentioned a third-person report about such selection in #1560548 previously, but I have just reproduced this bug by myself by installing zh-cn support by mistake. ** Description changed: 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 system-wise generic, while UMing as a normal (just a bit thin) serif sounds a bit better. This yields terrible results on non-Chinese systems - with non-Chinese lang-attributed websites, like Twitter, at least on - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS after installing Chinese language support which - includes the two arphic fonts mentioned in this report. + with non-Chinese lang-attributed websites, like Twitter, on Ubuntu 14.04 + LTS after installing Chinese language support which includes the two + arphic fonts mentioned in this report. This problem is similar to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20911, a long-standing system-global fontconfig non-latin fallback problem. See also bug #1560548 where these generic settings are considered as 'unneeded' and proposed for deletion. I have mentioned a third-person report about such selection in #1560548 previously, but I have just reproduced this bug by myself by installing zh-cn support by mistake. ** Description changed: 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 system-wise generic, while UMing as a normal (just a bit thin) serif sounds a bit better. This yields terrible results on non-Chinese systems with non-Chinese lang-attributed websites, like Twitter, on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS after installing Chinese language support which includes the two arphic fonts mentioned in this report. This problem is similar to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20911, a long-standing system-global fontconfig non-latin fallback problem. See also bug - #1560548 where these generic settings are considered as 'unneeded' and + #1560548 where these generic settings are considered as 'redundant' and proposed for deletion. I have mentioned a third-person report about such selection in #1560548 previously, but I have just reproduced this bug by myself by installing zh-cn support by mistake. ** Summary changed: - Awful Generic Selection for CJK + Awful system-wise generic selection for CJK -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1595414 Title: Awful system-wise generic selection for CJK To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-arphic-ukai/+bug/1595414/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
