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language-selector package

  1. Bug #1173571
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1173571

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Cheng-Chia Tseng (zerng07) wrote : Re: please add wenquanyi micro hei settings back with 69-language-selector-zh-tw.conf

Well, in Chinese reader's eyes, it is much more readible and pretty for WQY Micro Hei than WQY Zen Hei.

The strokes of each character provided by WQY Zen Hei are firstly compozed by programs, then those strokes later adjusted by manual as it is not that readible. WQY Micro Hei is derived from Google Droid Sans Fallback, and being added some character it did not provide.

Although WQY Zen Hei does has higher coverage on Han characters, WQY Micro Hei is still prefered as the first high quility freefont for Chinese font so far. I don't know why we now palce WQY Zen Hei or Droid Sans Fallback as the first font with those zh-*.conf. What is the main reason? I would suggest using Micro Hei instead of Zen Hei in this case.

I agree with clean up those fontconfig setting in language support. Of course, we can assign or bind Micro Hei / Micro Hei Mono to existing Sans or Monospace with is matched by fontconfig settings. It is fine with this way as you think that this is the right and best way.