[Bug 1595414] Re: Awful system-wise generic selection for CJK

[Mingye Wang]

Just an uninteresting side note, setting font-family to either
'Monospace' or monospace in the test case above shows a very
proportional font for ja. This should be a separate report, but just in
case I forget:

$ LC_ALL='ja_JP.UTF-8' fc-match 'Monospace'
DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf: "Droid Sans Fallback" "Regular"


** Summary changed:

- Awful system-wise generic selection for CJK
+ Awful generic selection for zh in Firefox

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Title:
  Awful generic selection for zh in Firefox

Status in fonts-arphic-ukai package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in fonts-arphic-uming package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in fonts-arphic-ukai source package in Trusty:
  New
Status in fonts-arphic-uming source package in Trusty:
  New
Status in language-selector source package in Trusty:
  New

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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