On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 10:21 +0100, Leo wrote:
Hi all,
Four years ago, I hated tweaking Chinese font support. It was such a waste of time. So with FC5, I have been using English for about 8 months now. FC5's Chinese support is as bad as Redhat Linux 8. Lately I did a lot of work in Chinese. It wasn't a pleasant experience with Fedora core 5. I'm studying in UK and I don't need to use Chinese on daily bases. If I feel awful, how would my fellow Chinese feel. I'm posting here so that fedora developers could pay more attention to this aspect in future releases.
Here is a comparison between SuSE 9.3 (released 2005/04/15) and FC5 (released 2006/03/20):
SuSE: Fedora: As you can see, the Chinese characters in SuSE 9.3 are much clearer and easier on the eyes.
Those appear to be bitmap fonts; can you tell us exactly which font that is? In any case, bitmap fonts should DIE DIE DIE.
Now there is a GPL'ed CJK font¹ that has actually been in Debian for a while. Hope it could make it into FC and be standardized as the default CJK font.
You may also be able to tune and/or turn off antialiasing of the fonts. That may help this situation. Go to System->Preferences->Fonts and see what you can do.
Dan
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