2014-06-18 22:06, Fabian Greffrath skrev: > Am Mittwoch, den 18.06.2014, 19:03 +0200 schrieb Gunnar Hjalmarsson: >> So the recipe does not make Droid Sans *the* preferred font. It just >> gives Droid Sans fonts somewhat *higher* precedence, which made the >> Chinese Ubuntu users happy. > > Please note that this does highly depend on the context of other > fontconfig files.
True. > Debian, for example, does not have the language-select > infrastructure that is mentioned in the bug report you sent me. Right, but those fontconfig files installed by language-selector are only effective in case of a Chinese locale. Hence they do not affect what we are discussing here, i.e. possible adverse effects for users with non-Chinese locales. In Ubuntu we chose to install the fonts-droid package on all installations. This was suggested by Chinese users, but since the Droid Sans fonts cover a bunch of Asian and other non-latin scripts, it's available for rendering other contents as well. There is an advantage with that: Contents in more non-latin scripts are now decently rendered by default. This can be - and is often - changed to other fonts for non-latin languages, whose users so prefer, via language guarded fontconfig recipes installed by other fonts packages. As regards latin scripts, I'm reasonably convinced that the recipe we discuss in this bug report does not change anything. But it would be great if you could do the same test on a Debian installation as I did on an Ubuntu ditto. -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org