The default fonts for CJK langages have been changed multiple times
since this bug report was filed. Closing since the bug has become
obsolete.
** Changed in: ubuntu-translations
Status: Triaged => Invalid
** Changed in: ttf-wqy-zenhei (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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Title:
WenQuanYi Zen Hei is prioritised above Japanese fonts for Japanese
language text
Status in Fontconfig:
Unknown
Status in Ubuntu Translations:
Invalid
Status in ttf-wqy-zenhei package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Binary package hint: ttf-wqy-zenhei
(I hope I've picked the right place to start with reporting this bug.
I find fontconfig and CJK font selection issues in general quite
confusing.)
In Karmic, running firefox seems to pick a non-Japanese font for displaying
Japanese web pages. (You can tell because the preferred character styles are
somewhat different.) This used to work in Jaunty, but Karmic makes a worse font
choice.
[Details: I have LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 but also PANGO_LANGUAGE=en;ja to tell Pango
to guess Japanese if it has to guess. I'll attach the result of running a
firefox with FC_DEBUG=1 and looking at a sample page with problems; you can see
it asking for a font with 'lang: "ja"' and getting back "WenQuanYi Zen Hei", so
I don't think firefox is at fault here.]
This seems to be because if we ask fontconfig for a "Sans" font for
Japanese text it gives back the ttf-wqy-zenhei one instead:
$ fc-match Sans:lang=ja
wqy-zenhei.ttc: "WenQuanYi Zen Hei" "中等"
I do have Japanese fonts installed:
$ fc-list :lang=ja
WenQuanYi Zen Hei Mono,文泉驛等寬正黑,文泉驿等宽正黑:style=Medium,中等
Sazanami Mincho,さざなみ明朝:style=Mincho-Regular,Regular
WenQuanYi Zen Hei,文泉驛正黑,文泉驿正黑:style=Medium,中等
VL PGothic,VL Pゴシック:style=regular
Sazanami Gothic,さざなみゴシック:style=Gothic-Regular,Regular
VL Gothic,VL ゴシック:style=regular
(and if you don't ask for a Sans font you get back one of those:
$ fc-match :lang=ja
ttf-japanese-gothic.ttf: "VL Gothic" "regular"
)
I think that if the application is asking for a font to display
Japanese text in, then all Japanese fonts should be prioritised above
any of the other CJK fonts...
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Feb 12 20:02:59 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: ttf-wqy-zenhei 0.8.38-1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: ttf-wqy-zenhei
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686
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