Qianqian Fang
2009-Dec-04 15:32 UTC
[Fontconfig] update 65-nonlatin and better default CJK support
hi some of you might have already noticed the discussions on the matter of 65-nonlatin and CJK supports. It has been going on for a while, but because there are different voices, so, it has progressed very slowly. you can find the full discussions at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20911 it boils down to two solutions, one is described in comments 73 and 77, the other is in comment 78. The first one was fully tested on all combinations of locales and font aliases and works as expected. No one have tested the second proposal AFAIK. Since fontconfig does not provide a good CJK support out-of-box as it does for Latins, I urge the developers to seriously consider these proposals and give a time frame to implement this. I can assure you that this will bring a great life saving to CJK users (yes, what you are seeing on your bugzilla is only the tip of the iceberg as most people complain this on their own forums. I can give you plenty of links as proof, if you can read Chinese). Qianqian