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

 

probably language-pack-* should depend on a font required for rendering the
locale in question.

Actually it seems they do but maybe it would be good idea to double-check.

Thanks

Michal


On 3 October 2013 12:58, Joey Chan <qqworini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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