[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Firefox Fix]

An instructive post. People to really know who they want to reach and why or 
else, they’ll have no way to know what they’re trying to achieve. People need 
to hear this and have it drilled in their brains..
Thanks for sharing this great article.
https://notresponding.net/firefox-fix/

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released
Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK
  font weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult
  to read, and thus gives a bad user experience.

  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA

  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk

  installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super"
  file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.

  Note: It has been fixed in yakkety via autosync, so "backporting"
  yakkety (as an SRU) instead of uploading from the PPA is an option.

  [Test Case]

  To reproduce the bug:

  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.

  [Regression Potential]

  This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
  coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.

  [Original description]

  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

This bug was fixed in the package fonts-noto-cjk -
1:1.004+repack2-1~ubuntu1

---
fonts-noto-cjk (1:1.004+repack2-1~ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * No-change backport to 16.04 as SRU to fix display problems in Chromium.
(LP: #157)

 -- Iain Lane   Thu, 05 May 2016 15:28:24
+0100

** Changed in: fonts-noto-cjk (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released
Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK
  font weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult
  to read, and thus gives a bad user experience.

  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA

  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk

  installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super"
  file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.

  Note: It has been fixed in yakkety via autosync, so "backporting"
  yakkety (as an SRU) instead of uploading from the PPA is an option.

  [Test Case]

  To reproduce the bug:

  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.

  [Regression Potential]

  This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
  coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.

  [Original description]

  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[tomoe_musashi]

For the "门" issue Dhoulmagus mentioned, please see:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/1468027

Gunnar mentioned that the Noto Sans CJK JP has the first priority in a fc-match 
listing, and there is no reason to prefer Chinese over Japanese just for the 
sake of it.
And as Dhoulmagus mentioned above, rendering non-lang-specified CJK content 
with per glyph "intelligently" is nearly impossible...

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK
  font weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult
  to read, and thus gives a bad user experience.

  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA

  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk

  installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super"
  file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.

  Note: It has been fixed in yakkety via autosync, so "backporting"
  yakkety (as an SRU) instead of uploading from the PPA is an option.

  [Test Case]

  To reproduce the bug:

  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.

  [Regression Potential]

  This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
  coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.

  [Original description]

  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[voidvector]

GH, thank you for putting this in.

At standard body text font size, around 14px for websites, thin width is
a lot less scan-able. You have to make an effort to read it. The feeling
is similar to reading "Courier New" body text. You can read it if you
make an effort, and you can get accustomed to it, however, it reduces UX
by a lot.

The "门" problem exists without the proposed font package installed.

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK
  font weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult
  to read, and thus gives a bad user experience.

  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA

  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk

  installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super"
  file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.

  Note: It has been fixed in yakkety via autosync, so "backporting"
  yakkety (as an SRU) instead of uploading from the PPA is an option.

  [Test Case]

  To reproduce the bug:

  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.

  [Regression Potential]

  This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
  coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.

  [Original description]

  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2016-05-12 21:03, Dhoulmagus wrote:
> For example, in this page:
> https://www.google.com/?ion=1=2#q=%E9%97%A8 I want "门" in SC
> instead of JP.

Then a stupid question from someone who doesn't understand any CJK
characters: How significant is the difference in appearance?

Another question: Does also Firefox fall back to JP when rendering pages
which are not language specified?

> Is there any way the user can manually set the CJK fallback font(in
> Chrome, or in somewhere else)?

Yes, there are such ways. Actually, if your session language is
zh_CN.UTF-8, then the fontconfig configuration makes SC the default.

However, if I understand it correctly, Chrome doesn't care about
fontconfig. OTOH you can specify the font in Chrome's "Settings"
(advanced).

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK
  font weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult
  to read, and thus gives a bad user experience.

  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA

  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk

  installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super"
  file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.

  Note: It has been fixed in yakkety via autosync, so "backporting"
  yakkety (as an SRU) instead of uploading from the PPA is an option.

  [Test Case]

  To reproduce the bug:

  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.

  [Regression Potential]

  This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
  coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.

  [Original description]

  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Dhoulmagus]

After installing fonts-noto-cjk 1:1.004+repack2-1~ubuntu1, Chrome starts to 
render CJK characters with Noto Sans CJK [JP] Regular in pages that does not 
define lang="ja"/lang="zh"/lang="zh-TW"/lang="zh-CN"...
i.e. When the page does not specifies lang="??" in HTML, Chrome will choose 
Noto Sans CJK JP series to render CJK characters as fallback. 
This may be ideal for Japanese users, but I personally would like Noto Sans SC 
as fallback, as a SC user. 
For example, in this page: https://www.google.com/?ion=1=2#q=%E9%97%A8 I 
want "门" in SC instead of JP. 
Is there any way the user can manually set the CJK fallback font(in Chrome, or 
in somewhere else)?
If such setting exists, JP users can set Noto JP as default fallback, TC users 
can set Noto TC as default fallback, and so can SC, and this issue can then be 
treated as fixed. 

And finally, if this can be done, it can be expected that this time, ALL CJK 
characters in a page without lang="??" which is a mixture of CJK 
fonts(http://www.gamer.com.tw for example) will be rendered in Noto Sans CJK 
SC. This is still not perfect. 
The ultimate ideal form is that Chrome will "intelligently" render 
Japanese(Hiragana, Katakana, and Japanese Kanji) in Noto JP, render Traditional 
Chinese in Noto TC, and Simplified Chinese in Noto SC, even in 
non-lang="??"-specified pages. This is one of the perfect forms: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Multilingual_support_(East_Asian)
Thanks to that each CJK paragraph is explicitly specified with lang="??" in 
HTML, this is fulfilled. But in normal pages, uh, I guess this is Mission 
Impossible...

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK
  font weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult
  to read, and thus gives a bad user experience.

  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA

  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk

  installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super"
  file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.

  Note: It has been fixed in yakkety via autosync, so "backporting"
  yakkety (as an SRU) instead of uploading from the PPA is an option.

  [Test Case]

  To reproduce the bug:

  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.

  [Regression Potential]

  This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
  coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.

  [Original description]

  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Installed fonts-noto-cjk 1:1.004+repack2-1~ubuntu1, and confirmed that
it fixes the issue using the "Test Case" in the bug description.

** Tags removed: verification-needed
** Tags added: verification-done

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK
  font weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult
  to read, and thus gives a bad user experience.

  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA

  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk

  installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super"
  file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.

  Note: It has been fixed in yakkety via autosync, so "backporting"
  yakkety (as an SRU) instead of uploading from the PPA is an option.

  [Test Case]

  To reproduce the bug:

  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.

  [Regression Potential]

  This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
  coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.

  [Original description]

  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Martin Pitt]

Hello JI, or anyone else affected,

Accepted fonts-noto-cjk into xenial-proposed. The package will build now
and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-noto-
cjk/1:1.004+repack2-1~ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed
repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Changed in: fonts-noto-cjk (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK
  font weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult
  to read, and thus gives a bad user experience.

  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA

  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk

  installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super"
  file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.

  Note: It has been fixed in yakkety via autosync, so "backporting"
  yakkety (as an SRU) instead of uploading from the PPA is an option.

  [Test Case]

  To reproduce the bug:

  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.

  [Regression Potential]

  This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
  coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.

  [Original description]

  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2016-05-07 02:39, Hong Zhu wrote:
> Is this done or not?

In yakkety yes, in xenial (16.04) not yet. Since it's a change of a
stable release, there are some procedures in place to prevent a
regression. Will probably take a week or two.

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK
  font weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult
  to read, and thus gives a bad user experience.

  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA

  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk

  installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super"
  file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.

  Note: It has been fixed in yakkety via autosync, so "backporting"
  yakkety (as an SRU) instead of uploading from the PPA is an option.

  [Test Case]

  To reproduce the bug:

  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.

  [Regression Potential]

  This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
  coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.

  [Original description]

  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Hong Zhu]

Is this done or not? still not work for me

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  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK
  font weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult
  to read, and thus gives a bad user experience.

  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA

  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk

  installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super"
  file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.

  Note: It has been fixed in yakkety via autosync, so "backporting"
  yakkety (as an SRU) instead of uploading from the PPA is an option.

  [Test Case]

  To reproduce the bug:

  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.

  [Regression Potential]

  This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
  coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.

  [Original description]

  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Iain Lane]

I uploaded the xenial backport to the SRU queue now, thanks!

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK
  font weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult
  to read, and thus gives a bad user experience.

  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA

  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk

  installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super"
  file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.

  Note: It has been fixed in yakkety via autosync, so "backporting"
  yakkety (as an SRU) instead of uploading from the PPA is an option.

  [Test Case]

  To reproduce the bug:

  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.

  [Regression Potential]

  This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
  coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.

  [Original description]

  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

** Description changed:

  [Impact]
  
  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK font
  weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult to
  read, and thus gives a bad user experience.
  
  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA
  
  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk
  
  installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super" file.
  This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.
  
- Note: It has already been fixed in Debian (version 1:1.004+repack2-1),
- so as regards yakkety I suppose that syncing instead of uploading from
- the PPA is a good idea.
+ Note: It has been fixed in yakkety via autosync, so "backporting"
+ yakkety (as an SRU) instead of uploading from the PPA is an option.
  
  [Test Case]
  
  To reproduce the bug:
  
  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.
  
  [Regression Potential]
  
  This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
  coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.
  
  [Original description]
  
  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall back
  on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the package
  and then manually download the font from Google website and install it
  to make the regular weight available
  
  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK
  font weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult
  to read, and thus gives a bad user experience.

  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA

  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk

  installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super"
  file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.

  Note: It has been fixed in yakkety via autosync, so "backporting"
  yakkety (as an SRU) instead of uploading from the PPA is an option.

  [Test Case]

  To reproduce the bug:

  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.

  [Regression Potential]

  This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
  coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.

  [Original description]

  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Fixed via autosync

** Changed in: fonts-noto-cjk (Ubuntu)
   Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK
  font weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult
  to read, and thus gives a bad user experience.

  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA

  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk

  installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super"
  file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.

  Note: It has been fixed in yakkety via autosync, so "backporting"
  yakkety (as an SRU) instead of uploading from the PPA is an option.

  [Test Case]

  To reproduce the bug:

  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.

  [Regression Potential]

  This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
  coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.

  [Original description]

  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Bug Watch Updater]

** Changed in: fonts-noto-cjk (Debian)
   Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK
  font weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult
  to read, and thus gives a bad user experience.

  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA

  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk

  installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super"
  file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.

  Note: It has already been fixed in Debian (version 1:1.004+repack2-1),
  so as regards yakkety I suppose that syncing instead of uploading from
  the PPA is a good idea.

  [Test Case]

  To reproduce the bug:

  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.

  [Regression Potential]

  This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
  coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.

  [Original description]

  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

** Description changed:

  [Impact]
  
  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK font
  weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult to
  read, and thus gives a bad user experience.
  
  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA
  
  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk
  
  installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super" file.
  This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.
+ 
+ Note: It has already been fixed in Debian (version 1:1.004+repack2-1),
+ so as regards yakkety I suppose that syncing instead of uploading from
+ the PPA is a good idea.
  
  [Test Case]
  
  To reproduce the bug:
  
  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.
  
  [Regression Potential]
  
  This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
  coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.
  
  [Original description]
  
  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall back
  on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the package
  and then manually download the font from Google website and install it
  to make the regular weight available
  
  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK
  font weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult
  to read, and thus gives a bad user experience.

  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA

  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk

  installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super"
  file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.

  Note: It has already been fixed in Debian (version 1:1.004+repack2-1),
  so as regards yakkety I suppose that syncing instead of uploading from
  the PPA is a good idea.

  [Test Case]

  To reproduce the bug:

  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.

  [Regression Potential]

  This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
  coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.

  [Original description]

  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Bug Watch Updater]

** Changed in: fonts-noto-cjk (Debian)
   Status: Unknown => New

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK
  font weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult
  to read, and thus gives a bad user experience.

  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA

  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk

  installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super"
  file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.

  [Test Case]

  To reproduce the bug:

  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.

  [Regression Potential]

  This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
  coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.

  [Original description]

  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #823374
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823374

** Also affects: fonts-noto-cjk (Debian) via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823374
   Importance: Unknown
   Status: Unknown

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK
  font weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult
  to read, and thus gives a bad user experience.

  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA

  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk

  installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super"
  file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.

  [Test Case]

  To reproduce the bug:

  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.

  [Regression Potential]

  This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
  coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.

  [Original description]

  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

** Description changed:

  [Impact]
  
  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK font
  weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult to
  read, and thus gives a bad user experience.
  
  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA
  
  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk
  
- installs 36 separate font files instead of a bundled OTC file. This
- works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.
+ installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super" file.
+ This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.
  
  [Test Case]
  
  To reproduce the bug:
  
  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.
  
  [Regression Potential]
  
- Due to ISO space concerns, the solution includes the creation of the
- fonts-noto-cjk-extras binary, which will not be seeded. fonts-noto-cjk
- installs only the 8 most important font files, while the rest are
- installed by fonts-noto-cjk-extras. Consequently 28 fonts will be
- dropped when the 16.04 users upgrade to the new fonts-noto-cjk package.
- However,
- 
- - they will be prompted to install fonts-noto-cjk-extras via Language
-   Support,
- 
- - fixing the Chromium/Chrome issue carries greater weight, and
- 
- - it's not a regression compared to 14.04 or 15.10, since the previous
-   package for rendering Chinese contents (fonts-droid) does not include
-   all those font weights.
+ This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
+ coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.
  
  [Original description]
  
  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall back
  on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the package
  and then manually download the font from Google website and install it
  to make the regular weight available
  
  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

** No longer affects: language-selector (Ubuntu Xenial)

** No longer affects: language-selector (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK
  font weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult
  to read, and thus gives a bad user experience.

  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA

  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk

  installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super"
  file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.

  [Test Case]

  To reproduce the bug:

  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.

  [Regression Potential]

  This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
  coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.

  [Original description]

  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

I tested to replace the single "super" OTC file with 7 weight specific
OTC files, and it seems like this is sufficient to fix "the Thin issue"
in Chrome/Chromium. So I have uploaded a simpler proposal to the PPA.
This variant increases the archive space utilization only fractionally
(73 MiB instead of 71), so no need to break out certain files to a new
binary.

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in language-selector source package in Xenial:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK
  font weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult
  to read, and thus gives a bad user experience.

  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA

  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk

  installs 36 separate font files instead of a bundled OTC file. This
  works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.

  [Test Case]

  To reproduce the bug:

  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.

  [Regression Potential]

  Due to ISO space concerns, the solution includes the creation of the
  fonts-noto-cjk-extras binary, which will not be seeded. fonts-noto-cjk
  installs only the 8 most important font files, while the rest are
  installed by fonts-noto-cjk-extras. Consequently 28 fonts will be
  dropped when the 16.04 users upgrade to the new fonts-noto-cjk
  package. However,

  - they will be prompted to install fonts-noto-cjk-extras via Language
    Support,

  - fixing the Chromium/Chrome issue carries greater weight, and

  - it's not a regression compared to 14.04 or 15.10, since the previous
    package for rendering Chinese contents (fonts-droid) does not include
    all those font weights.

  [Original description]

  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

** Description changed:

+ [Impact]
+ 
+ Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK font
+ weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult to
+ read, and thus gives a bad user experience.
+ 
+ The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA installs 36 separate font files
+ instead of a bundled OTC file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome
+ issue.
+ 
+ [Test Case]
+ 
+ To reproduce the bug:
+ 
+ * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
+ * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
+ * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.
+ 
+ [Regression Potential]
+ 
+ Due to ISO space concerns, the solution includes the creation of the
+ fonts-noto-cjk-extras binary, which will not be seeded. fonts-noto-cjk
+ installs only the 8 most important font files, while the rest are
+ installed by fonts-noto-cjk-extras. Consequently 28 fonts will be
+ dropped when the 16.04 users upgrade to the new fonts-noto-cjk package.
+ However,
+ 
+ - they will be prompted to install fonts-noto-cjk-extras via Language
+   Support,
+ 
+ - fixing the Chromium/Chrome issue carries greater weight, and
+ 
+ - it's not a regression compared to 14.04 or 15.10, since the previous
+   package for rendering Chinese contents (fonts-droid) does not include
+   all those font weights.
+ 
+ [Original description]
+ 
  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall back
  on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the package
  and then manually download the font from Google website and install it
  to make the regular weight available
  
  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

** Description changed:

  [Impact]
  
  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK font
  weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult to
  read, and thus gives a bad user experience.
  
- The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA installs 36 separate font files
- instead of a bundled OTC file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome
- issue.
+ The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA
+ 
+ https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk
+ 
+ installs 36 separate font files instead of a bundled OTC file. This
+ works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.
  
  [Test Case]
  
  To reproduce the bug:
  
  * Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
  * Go to  and notice the very thin characters.
  * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.
  
  [Regression Potential]
  
  Due to ISO space concerns, the solution includes the creation of the
  fonts-noto-cjk-extras binary, which will not be seeded. fonts-noto-cjk
  installs only the 8 most important font files, while the rest are
  installed by fonts-noto-cjk-extras. Consequently 28 fonts will be
  dropped when the 16.04 users upgrade to the new fonts-noto-cjk package.
  However,
  
  - they will be prompted to install fonts-noto-cjk-extras via Language
-   Support,
+   Support,
  
  - fixing the Chromium/Chrome issue carries greater weight, and
  
  - it's not a regression compared to 14.04 or 15.10, since the previous
-   package for rendering Chinese contents (fonts-droid) does not include
-   all those font weights.
+   package for rendering Chinese contents (fonts-droid) does not include
+   all those font weights.
  
  [Original description]
  
  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall back
  on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the package
  and then manually download the font from Google website and install it
  to make the regular weight available
  
  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in language-selector source package in Xenial:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK
  font weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult
  to read, and thus gives a bad user experience.

  The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA

  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk

  installs 36 separate font files instead of a bundled OTC 

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

A discussion with Aron Xu and Sebastien Bacher on IRC resulted in the
idea that we create an additional binary package and move some of the
font files to that package. So now there are two .deb files in the PPA:
fonts-noto-cjk and fonts-noto-cjk-extras.

fonts-noto-cjk installs these font files:

NotoSansCJKjp-Bold.otf
NotoSansCJKjp-Regular.otf
NotoSansCJKkr-Bold.otf
NotoSansCJKkr-Regular.otf
NotoSansCJKsc-Bold.otf
NotoSansCJKsc-Regular.otf
NotoSansCJKtc-Bold.otf
NotoSansCJKtc-Regular.otf

With those files, the size of the .deb file is 85 MiB (the size of the
.deb currently in the archive is 71 MiB).

fonts-noto-cjk-extras, which is optional, installs the other 28 font
files. fonts-noto-cjk-extras will not be included in the ISO files, but
Chinese users will be prompted to install it via Language Support.

** Also affects: language-selector (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Also affects: language-selector (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Also affects: fonts-noto-cjk (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Changed in: fonts-noto-cjk (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: fonts-noto-cjk (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed => In Progress

** Changed in: fonts-noto-cjk (Ubuntu)
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)

** Changed in: fonts-noto-cjk (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: fonts-noto-cjk (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: fonts-noto-cjk (Ubuntu Xenial)
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu Xenial)
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in language-selector source package in Xenial:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Submitted this issue: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-cjk/issues/65

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Inspired by what JI Xiang reported above, and as an experiment, I
created a version of fonts-noto-cjk, which installs 36 individual font
files instead of the NotoSansCJK.ttc bundle, and uploaded it to this
PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk

Seems to work, which indicates that there is some incompatibility
between Google's NotoSansCJK.ttc bundle and Google's own web browser.

There is a big problem with this solution, though: The .deb file in the
PPA is huge, really huge: 372 MiB to be compared with the original .deb
file of 71 MiB.

It should be said that neither Google Chrome nor Chromium is included by
default in Ubuntu. Considering that, and taken into account that fonts-
noto-cjk is included in the ISO files of both Ubuntu and the flavors,
it's not likely that adding 300 MiB to work around this issue will be
considered a reasonable measure.

So probably we need another solution. But in the meantime the PPA is
available for your convenience. :)

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Bug description:
  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Dhoulmagus]

After some time of messing around I still think this is a bug of CJK
fallback mechanism in Chrome...After all, when the page explicitly sets
lang="??", Chrome render the fonts using the corresponding language's
Noto Sans CJK ?? correctly and gorgeously(That is, for an entry of
Wikipedia, Chrome correctly renders its English version using Noto Sans,
Noto Serif, Noto Mono, and correctly renders its Japanese version using
Noto Sans CJK JP, and correctly renders its SC version using Noto Sans
CJK SC and TC version using Noto Sans CJK TC. And Chrome correctly
renders normal texts using Regular fonts and renders bold texts using
corresponding Bold fonts. This means that Chrome CAN RECOGNIZE different
Noto CJK fonts and their different Weights), but when the page does not
explicitly sets lang="??", its fallback mechanism will weirdly choose
[Noto Sans CJK JP Thin] first to render CJK fonts, which is the key.

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Bug description:
  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Dhoulmagus]

The result of the Taiwan method is to render Traditional Chinese using Noto 
Sans CJK [JP] Medium, which is apparently still abnormal. 
But I don't want Regular Only... so I did not try the first approach either. 
And substitute /usr/share/fonts/opentype/noto/NotoSansCJK.ttc with the 
All-in-one Super OTC pack in https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/cjk/ did not 
work either...
I'm trying to installing separate font files and see if this works...(God damn 
the Font Manager in ubuntu repo is also not functional...needs to use the PPA 
one. We could never stop messing around could we)

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  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[JI Xiang]

@Dhoulmagus In your case maybe you can try to replace the font file
installed by fonts-noto-cjk directly as a temporary measure. According
to http://askubuntu.com/a/762910/391188 and
http://takeson.blogspot.com/2016/04/noto-sans-cjk-thin-font-issue.html
this method should work, though I haven't tried it myself.

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Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Dhoulmagus]

ubuntu Mate 16.04 here. What is worse is that fonts-noto-cjk is a
dependency of ubuntu-mate-core and ubuntu-mate-desktop and purging
fonts-noto-cjk will also purge ubuntu-mate-core and installing back
ubuntu-mate-core will also installing back fonts-noto-cjk.

My current settings in Chrome in this ubuntu Mate 16.04 is, in Customize
fonts... -> Advanced Font Settings, set Latin to use "Noto sans" for
sans-serif, "Noto serif" for serif, "Noto Mono" for fixed-width, and set
Simplified Han to use "Noto Sans CJK SC" for serif and sans-serif, "Noto
Sans Mono CJK SC" for fixed-width, and similarly for Traditional Han and
Japanese. This works beautifully in pages that explicitly set lang="ja"
or lang="zh" or similar in HTML, e.g. Wikipedia. But in pages that not
explicitly set lang="??" (for example, https://www.google.com/#q=ceshi),
it will render those Simplified Chinese characters using "Noto Sans CJK
JP Thin". The expected behaviour is to render them using "Noto Sans CJK
SC Regular". Why JP and why Thin? And this actually happens on every
pages that does not explicitly set lang="??"(Yes, it will also use "Noto
Sans CJK JP THIN" to render a full-of-Japanese page that does not
explicitly set lang="ja")

I don't know who causes this bug...But googled for a while and looks
like that Chrome ignores system fontconfig, so I guess it may be a bug
of font configuration/fallback mechanism inside Chrome...

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  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Duncan]

I have been having the same issue, except I noticed it for Japanese font
rendering (though it also affects Chinese etc).

Chrome selects CJK JP thin for all lang="ja" (when falling back to
"sans-serif" at the end of the font stack) regardless of css font-weight
specified.

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  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: fonts-noto-cjk (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Confirmed

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  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[JI Xiang]

Could the package just install all weights in separate files just the
way they're downloaded at Google website https://www.google.com/get/noto
/#sans-hans, instead of putting them into one file? Should that make a
difference? This approach seems to solve the issue in Chrome for me.

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  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1575555] Re: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

[JI Xiang]

I'm not sure that's the case... As I described in the original report,
once I uninstalled the package and manually downloaded NotoCJK from
Google, the issue is fixed, even though I didn't make any changes in the
Chrome font settings (the default font is still "Liberation Sans" now).
In my original noto folder, there is only one NotoSansCJK file, but in
the downloaded zip file, there are various files e.g. NotoSansCJKsc-
Regular.otf, NotoSansCJKsc-Bold.otf etc. Maybe this package just packs
all of them into one, but then it's likely a fontconfig issue as of why
Chrome decided that "Thin" is the correct one to use.

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
  very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall
  back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the
  package and then manually download the font from Google website and
  install it to make the regular weight available

  Release: 16.04 LTS
  Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
  Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
  Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

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