When I use Chinese characters, I choose a font for 2 practical reasons...
1st: readability.
Some simplified characters I've used consist of over 20 characters.
Traditional Chinese characters, when different from simplified ones,
usually consist of more strokes than their simplified equivalents. Of
the currently in-use characters, I think the record is biang (2nd tone),
which, depending on what constitutes one stroke, consists of 58 strokes
(traditional Chinese) or 42 strokes (simplified Chinese). (See
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biangbiang_noodles"; for more about the
"biang" character.) For me, the regular (KaiTi) fonts seem to display
"busy" characters better, more clearly, than do the Ming and sans-serif
fonts.
2nd: experience.
I have taken 3 vacations in China (all to mainland China). The rest of
my experience with Chinese is with Chinese co-workers and friends. I'm
not anything close to fluent in Chinese. Ed seems to have been in
Taiwan for many years. So he has far more experience with Chinese, and
so can probably handle more fonts better.
Then there's personal preference. I prefer orchestra music over solo
musician/instrument music, old hymns over modern praise music, (for
Roman characters) serif fonts over san-serif fonts, and the pipe organ
over all other instruments. If you pick up on the pattern, you
understand that I prefer regular (KaiTi) Chinese text over Ming and
sans-serif Chinese text.
There are advantages and disadvantages with each font. I'm almost
certain that any font will be missing many Chinese characters (I've read
that there are over 50,000 Chinese characters, simplified-only + shared,
or traditional-only + shared). Beyond that, I've only encountered two
problems with the AR PL UKai fonts, the open double quote problem being
one of them. (And it's not clear that it's a font problem: Firefox
handles it correctly, Gnome terminal does not.) Weighing things,
sticking with AR PL UKai fonts is what's best for me (and for some other
people). Using Ming or san-serif fonts is what's best for other people.
The original questions were where to file a bug, and against what to
file the bug. I'm now convinced that filing a bug is very unlikely to
help. So I'm marking this thread "CLOSED". I thank everyone who
invested time and effort to help. And we did learn along the way.
Bill.
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