[Bug 1595414] Re: Awful generic selection for zh in Firefox

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

More input from Chinese users is needed to make progress on this one.
Feedback on my idea in comment #6 would be appreciated, as would other
ideas on the desired direction.

Removing the trusty tasks for now. Let's decide what to do in the
current development version first, and consider possible backporting
later.

** No longer affects: fonts-arphic-ukai (Ubuntu Trusty)

** No longer affects: fonts-arphic-uming (Ubuntu Trusty)

** No longer affects: language-selector (Ubuntu Trusty)

** Changed in: fonts-arphic-ukai (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Changed in: fonts-arphic-ukai (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Changed in: fonts-arphic-uming (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Changed in: fonts-arphic-uming (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Awful generic selection for zh in Firefox

Status in fonts-arphic-ukai package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in fonts-arphic-uming package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  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.

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