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[Cheng-Chia Tseng <pswo10680@xxxxxxxxx>]

@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: 
1. http://blog.justfont.com/2013/12/popular-typography/
2. http://breezymove.blogspot.tw/2013/11/cantarell.html This post uses Cantarell as example, but share the same idea with this issue.

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Title:
  please change wenquanyi micro hei back with 69-language-selector-zh-
  tw.conf

Status in Ubuntu Seeds:
  In Progress
Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “ttf-wqy-microhei” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  In quantal and previous version of ubuntu, we use WenQuanYi Micro Hei
  as default Chinese (Traditional) fonts for Sans, Monospace. However,
  the default font is set to WenQuanYi Zen Hei in 0.110 version provided
  by Raring.

  It is a regression that most of Chinese (Traditional) users don't
  appreciate this change. We would like to use WenQuanYi Micro Hei as
  before.

  I changed the conf provided by raring to fit we Chinese (Traditional)
  users more to have WenQuanYi Micro Hei back. Please accept the patch.

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