[Bug 1581151] Re: Time to drop 69-language-selector-zh-??.conf?

[Yuan Chao]

To me,
1. This is for sure to go. Noto serif has large glyph coverage and better font (hinting) quality. I think it should go first in the alias.
2. Some old software like adobe flash / youtube (flash must die...) has hard-coded font name in the program. I recall UMing and UKai do some tweaks to overcome this. Those settings need to be kept and migrate. Also some old software have hard time dealing with TTC or OTF/OCF, this needs test. (maybe it's time to get rid of them all... ;) )
3. I think "prepend" is still needed for fallback when using non-Noto fonts?

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Title:
  Time to drop 69-language-selector-zh-??.conf?

Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  With the transition to Noto Sans CJK as default font for Chinese, we
  have established a fontconfig configuration for rendering Chinese
  under an *English* locale via these three files:

  /etc/fonts/conf.avail/64-language-selector-prefer.conf

  /etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-fonts-arphic-ukai.conf

  /etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-fonts-arphic-uming.conf

  (I questioned the need for the two latter in bug #1560548, but I think
  we'd better consider the need for the 69-language-selector-zh-??.conf
  files first.)

  So, if I have understood the feedback from Chinese users correctly,
  both Chinese and Japanese are properly rendered under an English
  locale in Ubuntu 16.04.

  It's my belief that what's happening if you switch to a Chinese locale
  is that one of the 69-language-selector-zh-??.conf files is enabled,
  and Japanese is no longer properly rendered while there is no
  improvement in rendering Chinese.

  If I'm right, I think we should drop 69-language-selector-zh-??.conf.
  Did I miss anything?

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