On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 10:21 +0100, Leo wrote: > Hi all, > > Four years ago, I hated tweaking Chinese font support. It was such a > waste of time. So with FC5, I have been using English for about 8 > months now. FC5's Chinese support is as bad as Redhat Linux 8. Lately > I did a lot of work in Chinese. It wasn't a pleasant experience with > Fedora core 5. I'm studying in UK and I don't need to use Chinese on > daily bases. If I feel awful, how would my fellow Chinese feel. I'm > posting here so that fedora developers could pay more attention to > this aspect in future releases. > > Here is a comparison between SuSE 9.3 (released 2005/04/15) and FC5 > (released 2006/03/20): > > SuSE: > Fedora: > As you can see, the Chinese characters in SuSE 9.3 are much clearer > and easier on the eyes. Those appear to be bitmap fonts; can you tell us exactly which font that is? In any case, bitmap fonts should DIE DIE DIE. > Now there is a GPL'ed CJK font¹ that has actually been in Debian for a > while. Hope it could make it into FC and be standardized as the > default CJK font. You may also be able to tune and/or turn off antialiasing of the fonts. That may help this situation. Go to System->Preferences->Fonts and see what you can do. Dan > > Footnotes: > ¹ http://wqy.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/enindex.cgi > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
