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Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [language] east-Asian language support problem

 

I don't think this bug is from locale, environment, setting, conf, etc..  I
just add some *.ttf files to make the language support available


2013/10/3 Penk Chen <penk.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> 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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