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@fourdolars:
I agree with the part helping the development of CJKUnifonts. However, it is no sense to use AR PL UMing for all styles as AR PL UMing is a serif style font and can only be used in serif part. BTW, the configuration is using AR PL UMing now.
So the issue here is which font we should use for sans-serif and monospace part for Chinese. Monospace part is no difference for Chinese to use sans-serif or monospace here because we fallback from DejaVu Sans Mono and Chinese characters are monospaced already.
It is always to use open font first that we can improve them by the power of the community. The existing sans-serif style open Chinese fonts are Droid Sans Fallback, WenquanYi Microhei and Zenhei, cwTeX Yuan and Hei Bold, and cwTeX Q Yuan and Hei. The reason why I suggested Droid was written above as Wenquanyi project has stopped development for many years while Droid is still being maintained and releasing new versions. cwTeX fonts are not covering as many characters as droid does, we still have to fallback to Droid to get better Chinese support, but cwTeX and Droid does not share the same font height and width which is not a good result though.
Using open fonts makes us have the right to improve the fonts. Droid Sans Fallback has good coverage and uses Apache license, so it should reduce the work for the community to improve in contrast to cwTeX fonts and it's derived fonts.
However, we still have other improvement way for other sans-serif style Chinese font. One is to fork Wenquanyi Microhei which some of my friends are planning to do, and the other is to expand the development of cwTeX or cwTeX Q fonts projects.
If you don't want to see Droid Sans Fallback which follows GB standard, we can found a project or create a subproject under CJKUnifonts to modify it. It might be a quicker way to have more efficiency.
If you cannot accept Droid Sans Fallback however, we can think about choosing cwTeX Q Hei instead and help to improve the font in community way. It will takes more time and work to have the good quality and high quantity as droid font does though.
For the information about typography issue to match Chinese font with English font, please see:
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