On Tue, 10/10/06 14:13 +0100, John Thacker wrote: > On 10/10/06, Leo <sdl.web@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, 10/10/06 11:17 +0100, Yuan Yijun wrote: >> >> > 2006/10/9, Leo <sdl.web@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> >> >> >> FZSongTi, 方正宋体, which is a commercial font. >> > >> > >> > chinese fonts in fc6 has changed a lot from fc5, the look and feel has >> > been improved so much that you have never seen in other distributions. >> > please compare fc6 to novell again after fc6 released. >> >> I probably can do it for FC7. I have no plan to upgrade to FC6 since >> I'm stuck with a lot of work at this time. But what on earth has >> changed from FC6 to FC5 with respect to Chinese fonts? Is it the new >> fontconfig or a new CJK font? Is it possible to backport those to FC5? > > Do you have the free Chinese fonts installed as well on FC5? (I say > Chinese because the Japanese fonts don't provide coverge of all hanzi > that you'll need.) Are you manually selecting FZSongTi instead of > using the default provided Chinese fonts? > FZSongTi is with SuSE 9.3. I didn't use it in FC5. But I have copied simsun.ttc and the free font "WenQuanYi" to fonts dir. > The configuration for fontconfig by default turns hinting on but > overrides the hinting selection and turns it off for the > Fedora-provided CJK and Indic fonts. (See > /etc/fonts/conf.d/25-no-hint-fedora.conf ) However, it doesn't list > every CJK and Indic font out there, and it doesn't automatically turn > off hinting for any font which supports a CJK language. (I'm not > totally sure that that's possible or desired.) > > I suspect that's your problem. It is possible to edit that file to > turn off hinting for FZSongTi. Manually editing the file is not > really a good end-user solution, I agree, but neither necessarily is > having the default config file contain every CJK font that > users might install. > > John Thacker It turns out Chinese characters are displayed badly only in a few apps such as gnome-terminal and inkscape etc. -- Leo -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
