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Re: [language] east-Asian language support problem

 

Hi,

FYI, I've created one (seemly related) bug here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/+bug/1189352

Best,
penk



On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Joey Chan <qqworini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
> For those who are living in east-Asian countries(China, Korea, Japan), pls
> have a test about your native language support in Ubuntu-Touch, e.g. use
> webbrowser to see a native website.
>
> 1. Release Notes
> The Release Notes website
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/ReleaseNotes#Language  has a sulotion for
> installing fonts-droid, but in latest version of Ubuntu-Touch, fonts-droid
> is already the latest version;
>
> 2. choose language in setting
> Flick the list to the end, all east-Asian languages are broken, include
> Japanese,   Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean;
>  screenshot 7.png<https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1Fa0vQaKud1SkZKbG1pWklZRTA/edit?usp=drive_web>
>
> 3. use the webbrowser to test language support
>
> * 4. manually add fonts to Touch
> I tried copy all my fonts from /usr/share/fonts/truetype/  to the same
> directory in Touch, then I saw different fonts shown all-in-one sentence
>
>  screenshot 6.png<https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1Fa0vQaKud1dVN0SkNoTUp2WVE/edit?usp=drive_web>
>
>
>
> ** Suggestion from David:*
> to help improve Ubuntu-Touch, pls follow:
> 1. copy your desktop fonts to phone one by one, until your native language
> is supported;
> 2. collect enough info (font file name, desktop version, which language,
> etc..);
> 3. reply this email or report to Canonical directly (I'm not an official,
> but David is) ;
>
>
> BR,
> Joey from China
>
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