[Bug 2017076] Re: default Chinese font in snap apps is ugly

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

I think the reason why fonts-droid-fallback is installed by default is
this dependency chain:

ubuntu-desktop -> ghostscript-x -> ghostscript -> libgs10 ->
libgs10-common -> (recommends) fonts-droid-fallback

A fragile workaround might be to somehow stop fonts-droid-fallback from
being pulled (change libgs10-common so it Suggests instead of Recommends
fonts-droid-fallback). Or maybe we could drop the font configuration
file from the fonts-droid-fallback package.

OTOH, neither would address the root cause — why do the snaps behave as
they do with respect to font configuration?

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Title:
  default Chinese font in snap apps is ugly

Status in Snappy:
  Fix Released
Status in fontconfig package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  After installs Ubuntu 23.04 with Chinese language selected, the
  default font is chosen to AR PL UMing CN, which is very ugly.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
  Package: fontconfig 2.14.1-3ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.2.0-20.20-generic 6.2.6
  Uname: Linux 6.2.0-20-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CloudArchitecture: x86_64
  CloudID: none
  CloudName: none
  CloudPlatform: none
  CloudSubPlatform: config
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Thu Apr 20 14:18:45 2023
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-04-20 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" - Release amd64 (20230418)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   TERM=xterm-256color
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
  SourcePackage: fontconfig
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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