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[Mingye Wang <arthur2e5@xxxxxxxx>]

** Summary changed:

- "song ti" and other bitmap fonts are not available even if using yes-bitmaps rule
+ SimSun and other bitmap fonts are not available even with `yes-bitmaps' applied

** Summary changed:

- SimSun and other bitmap fonts are not available even with `yes-bitmaps' applied
+ "song ti" and other bitmap fonts are not available even with `yes-bitmaps' applied

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Title:
  "song ti" and other bitmap fonts are not available even with `yes-
  bitmaps' applied

Status in Ubuntu Translations:
  Triaged
Status in xfonts-wqy package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: fontconfig

  Having 70-yes-bitmaps.conf replacing 70-no-bitmaps.conf in
  /etc/fonts/conf.d/ does not make available all bitmap fonts.
  Reproduce:

  1) have 70-yes-bitmaps.conf set;
  2) some bitmap fonts in /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc are then available in fc-list. Some others are not.

  Example of those are available on both xlsfont and fc-list:
  /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/unifont.pcf.gz in xfonts-unifont package
      xlsfont says

      -gnu-unifont-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso10646-1
      -gnu-unifont-medium-r-normal--16-160-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1
      -unifoundry.com-gnu unifont-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1

      fc-list says:

      unifont.pcf:style=Regular
      unifont:style=Medium

  Example of those are available on xlsfont but not on fc-list:
  /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/gb16st.pcf.gz in xfonts-base package.
      xlsfont says:

      -isas-song ti-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-gb2312.1980-0
      -isas-song ti-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-160-gb2312.1980-0
      -isas-song ti-medium-r-normal--24-240-72-72-c-240-gb2312.1980-0

      the font is not in fc-list.

  Rationate why we need to make bitmap font available:
  +------
  | It should not happen that the system asks users to use scalable font instead of bitmap font
  | when there is no scalable font replacement available.
  +------

  In the west there are san-serif, serif as main typefaces, each have an
  italic typefaces. These can be said of basic typefaces. The four basic
  typefaces in Chinese typography are:

  - Song ti:
      two varients:
      low contrast "book" varient:  scalable offered by ttf-arphic-uming package.
      heavy contrast title / strong varient: NO SCALABLE available,  xfonts-base offer a bitmap one: "Song Ti"
  - Kaiti. scalable offered by ttf-arphic-ukai package.
  - Fangsong ti. NO SCALABLE available, xfonts-base offer a bitmap one.
  - HeiTi. scalable offered by ttf-droid package.

  The four-basics all have scalable versions in MS Windows since 95'.

  As you can see some basic things only have bitmap version so far, in
  Ubuntu packages. It should not be too difficult to make them work.

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