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

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2023-07-03 11:08, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Could you use a new bug to discuss the japanese issue?

Yes, Mitsuya plans to submit a new bug once he has checked mantic. (I
have used this one in the meantime to share a couple of thoughts.)

> It could help also to know if you are using the core20 or core22
> version of firefox and they have the same issue.

Mitsuya doesn't see it in jammy, and neither do I:

$ snap run --shell firefox
To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details.

/home/gunnar$ LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 fc-match sans-serif
NotoSansCJK-Regular.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK JP" "Regular"

Even if fonts-droid-fallback is present there too.

(But I notice another weird issue: In the FF Settings it shows Ubuntu as
the default serif font irrespective of locale. How come?)

> Is the configuration in the snap environment matching the real
> system one?

It is not per se, is it? At least not in lunar and mantic, where we use
an upgraded fontconfig in the system.

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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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