Just a few more words about default Chinese font settings.
There seem be a distinct dividing line among the Chinese
users for their font preferences: on one side of the line,
they really prefer sharp-looking bitmaped Chinese glyphs, while,
the other side have strong preference in the smooth-looking of
AA-ed vector rendering. The contradictions between these two
groups can be constantly felt in almost all Chinese Linux
forums.
Using Ubuntu as an example, when Ubuntu 8.04 set wqy-zenhei
as the default Chinese Sans font, it has the embedded bitmaps turned
on by default. There was a strong rally against using the
embedded bitmaps, because they like the vector form of
ZenHei. I have to put instructions on our front page to tell
people how to turn off the bitmaps. After a 400-participant
survey, somebody proved that vector-preferred users are about
3:1 to the bitmap ones
http://forum.ubuntu.org.cn/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=120639 (in Chinese)
So, in 8.10, the bitmaps in ZenHei was turned off. Now,
the CN forum of ubuntu is flooded with complains of
losing their "sharp-looking glyphs", and asking how to turn
on the bitmaps. I had to make another sticky post at our website
to teach people how to turn it back on.
What I want to say is, these two groups both have significant
number of supporters. As the current settings on Fedora is
the bitmap way. I would anticipate some disturbance among
the users for the font style switching from one to the other
if we decide to use Droid(or derivatives) as the default.
Hope the font-selector tool can be released timely to help
sorting out the font preference chaos:
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/font-selector
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Hi,
As you probably know Google has released a Droid font set as part of its
Android platform. While the font licensing is being clarified
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472635
(Fedora packaging blocker) I've taken a quick look at the font files.
The set includes a huge "Droid Sans Fallback" font with CJK coverage.
Could the CJK folks take a look at it and tell me how this font should
be treated: as Japanese-only, Chinese-only, Korean-only before/after
current CJK defaults, etc? Han unification means someone will probably
not be happy about it.
I've uploaded preliminary droid packages there
http://nim.fedorapeople.org/fontpackages/
so people can check them out.
Regards,
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