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[Cheng-Chia Tseng <pswo10680@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  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
+ compatibilty 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.

** Description changed:

  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.
+ typefaces which DejaVu fontfamily covers. 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
  compatibilty 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.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/713950

Title:
  Improvement for zh-tw fontconfig settings of language-selector