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[Anthony Wong <anthony.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Ubuntu Touch uses Kaiti style font as the main UI font for displaying
Chinese, which is not optimal as nowadays operating systems all use
Heiti style font for the UI, we should really change it asap.

Currently there are two choices on Ubuntu, fonts-droid and wqy-microhei.
Below I will list out the pros and cons.

I am not too much in favour of using wqy-microhei, the reason being that
it is basically a font that based on the Droid font
(DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf to be exact). Upstream has not updated wqy-
microhei for long time, so it lacks any new updates from the Droid font,
although it may not be obvious to users. Advantage of wqy-microhei being
its wider codepoint coverage, for example it also contains Japanese
Kanas and Korean Hanguls in one font, the downside is it may be of lower
quality than DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf due to its lack of maintenance in
recent years.

Another option is DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf, which is in the fonts-droid
package. The advantage is it has coverage of CJK ext. A [1], which wqy-
microhei does not provide. On the other hand, wqy-microhei has added
some glyphs that the droid font does not provide, I don't have the exact
number of that but I believe it's just a small number. The disadvantage
is it does not include Korean Hangul, which can be remedied with another
Korean font, and it's not our current concern anyway.

Another possible disadvantage of wqy-microhei is it includes more latin
characters, which may result to inconsistent glyphs being used.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_Unified_Ideographs_Extension_A

** Affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1346766

Title:
  Chinese in Ubuntu Touch should use Heiti style sans serif font

Status in “ubuntu-meta” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Ubuntu Touch uses Kaiti style font as the main UI font for displaying
  Chinese, which is not optimal as nowadays operating systems all use
  Heiti style font for the UI, we should really change it asap.

  Currently there are two choices on Ubuntu, fonts-droid and wqy-
  microhei. Below I will list out the pros and cons.

  I am not too much in favour of using wqy-microhei, the reason being
  that it is basically a font that based on the Droid font
  (DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf to be exact). Upstream has not updated wqy-
  microhei for long time, so it lacks any new updates from the Droid
  font, although it may not be obvious to users. Advantage of wqy-
  microhei being its wider codepoint coverage, for example it also
  contains Japanese Kanas and Korean Hanguls in one font, the downside
  is it may be of lower quality than DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf due to
  its lack of maintenance in recent years.

  Another option is DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf, which is in the fonts-
  droid package. The advantage is it has coverage of CJK ext. A [1],
  which wqy-microhei does not provide. On the other hand, wqy-microhei
  has added some glyphs that the droid font does not provide, I don't
  have the exact number of that but I believe it's just a small number.
  The disadvantage is it does not include Korean Hangul, which can be
  remedied with another Korean font, and it's not our current concern
  anyway.

  Another possible disadvantage of wqy-microhei is it includes more
  latin characters, which may result to inconsistent glyphs being used.

  [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_Unified_Ideographs_Extension_A

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