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

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

With the new .conf file, the interesting fonts appear in this order for
me when running with a non-CJKV locale on a system where the Chinese
language support (with the fonts-arphic-* packages) is present:

$ fc-match -a sans-serif | grep -iE 'noto|takao|ar pl' | head -22
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"
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK TC" "Regular"
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK TC" "DemiLight"
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK TC" "Medium"
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK TC" "Thin"
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK TC" "Light"
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK TC" "Bold"
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK TC" "Black"
fonts-japanese-gothic.ttf: "TakaoPGothic" "Regular"
TakaoPGothic.ttf: "TakaoPGothic" "Regular"
ukai.ttc: "AR PL UKai CN" "Book"
ukai.ttc: "AR PL UKai HK" "Book"
ukai.ttc: "AR PL UKai TW" "Book"
uming.ttc: "AR PL UMing CN" "Light"
uming.ttc: "AR PL UMing HK" "Light"
uming.ttc: "AR PL UMing TW" "Light"
$ fc-match -a monospace | grep -iE 'noto|takao|ar pl' | head -11
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans Mono CJK SC" "Regular"
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans Mono CJK SC" "Bold"
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans Mono CJK TC" "Regular"
NotoSansCJK.ttc: "Noto Sans Mono CJK TC" "Bold"
TakaoGothic.ttf: "TakaoGothic" "Regular"
ukai.ttc: "AR PL UKai CN" "Book"
ukai.ttc: "AR PL UKai HK" "Book"
ukai.ttc: "AR PL UKai TW" "Book"
uming.ttc: "AR PL UMing CN" "Light"
uming.ttc: "AR PL UMing HK" "Light"
uming.ttc: "AR PL UMing TW" "Light"

I don't know how to figure out if this works, or if the Chinese "Noto
Sans CJK" fonts messes it up somehow when rendering Japanese contents.

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Title:
  change default CJK fonts to Noto CJK

Status in Fontconfig:
  Confirmed
Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  New
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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