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- Subject: Re: Request for review and advice on wqy-bitmap-fonts fontconfig settings
- From: Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:40:03 -0500
- Cc: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxx>, fedora-fonts-list@xxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: <c7d97dc50711282308m10de0181u7dcdf87242b0d884@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
- References: <4747A7AC.2080908@xxxxxxxxx> <1195914114.5048.35.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <c7d97dc50711282308m10de0181u7dcdf87242b0d884@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 02:08 -0500, Qianqian Fang wrote: > The default fontconfig setup for rendering Chinese webpages under > non-zh locales is terrible. You can test this using en or other non > CJK locales, by browsing http://wenq.org , you will see a mixed text > rendered by Japanese fonts, uming, ukai and some Japanese/Korean > bitmap X core fonts. In my opinion, that is non-usable. To tell the > truth, en_US is my default locale for both office and at home. I don't > want my desktop looks non-legible by my colleagues. However, I do want > it to process Chinese properly. Most my Chinese friends working in the > US have the same set up for the same reason. The default en (or non > CJK) Chinese rendering does need to be improved (it might be more > appropriate to handle this with Fedora font committee or some sort, > but improving the situation by installing an additional font package > may not a bad solution either: those who don't like it just uninstall > this font, and everything will back to the default way). This is because by default fontconfig doesn't come with a mind-reader. You have to tell it which CJK language you want it to prefer. You can do that by any of: - Setting $LANG to zh_CN for example. - Making sure your HTML pages have the lang="zh-cn" tag. No, lang="zh" is not enough. - With recent Pango and a Pango-enabled firefox, you can set $LANGUAGE=en_US,zh_CN, or set $PANGO_LANGUAGE=en_US,zh_CN. It does the right thing then. -- behdad http://behdad.org/Attachment: signature.asc
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