[Bug 1468027] Re: change default CJK fonts to Noto CJK

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Maybe there is a possible simple solution, after all.

As an experiment I added a line to 69-language-selector-zh-cn.conf:

--- 69-language-selector-zh-cn.conf.old
+++ 69-language-selector-zh-cn.conf
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
             <string>zh-cn</string>
         </test>
 		<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
+			<string>Noto Sans CJK SC Regular</string>
 			<string>Noto Sans CJK SC</string>
 			<string>WenQuanYi Zen Hei</string>
 			<string>HYSong</string>

That made a difference:

$ LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 fc-match -a | head -7
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK SC" "Regular"
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK SC" "DemiLight"
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK SC" "Medium"
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK SC" "Thin"
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK SC" "Light"
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK SC" "Bold"
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK SC" "Black"

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Title:
  change default CJK fonts to Noto CJK

Status in Fontconfig:
  Confirmed
Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  just realize that fonts-noto-cjk is available in the repository, finally its packaged.
  i don't really know about korean community.
  But for Chinese and Japanese community, i think that the answer is clear.
  noto-cjk is definitely better what we had before, like fonts- wqy and fonts-droid.
  Android community had received these complains for years, finally they got them fixed on lollipop.
  Fedora also set it as default chinese font start from F21.
  and of course, i still hope that ubuntu could drop those 69-language-selector fontconfig files, just like what F13 did.

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