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Binary package hint: language-selector

Now the setting of 69-language-selector-zh-tw.conf picks up the Latin
fonts first, then fallback to Chinese fonts. By default, ubuntu only
installs DejaVu font family and WenQuanYi Micro Hei font.

However, there is no need to pick up the Latin fonts first. I am here to
propose to remove the Latin fonts (Bitstream and DejaVu family) in the
configration for the reasons below:

1. As far as I have known, WenQuanYi Micro Hei font provied all the
typefaces which DejaVu fonts have. There is no need to fallback.

2. There is no evidence indicating mixing Latin characters provided by
Latin fonts with Chinese characters provided by CJK fonts will be the
best default experience. Actullay, that will sacrifice the consistency
when there is English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean text displaying on
the screen at the same time.

3. Removing the Latin fonts in the configuration provides the best
capibilty for Chinese with those programs which do not follow the
fallback machenism of fontconfig, such as Evince. The programs like that
only pick up the first font, DejaVu font, and displaying squares for
Chinese characters.

4. People still have the freedom to edit the configuration or add new
rules, there is no harm removing those Latin font strings in zh_TW
configuration.

Please consider to remove the Latin fonts prior to the CJK fonts.

** Affects: language-selector (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Improvement for zh-tw fontconfig settings of language-selector
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/713950
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