Re: [Fwd: Droid fallback CJK and fontconfig?]

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le dimanche 23 novembre 2008 à 09:47 -0500, Qianqian Fang a écrit :
>  hi Nicolas 
>  The Han glyphs in Droid fallback pretty much follow the
> Han-unification
>  as in the unicode documentations. That means they look very much close
>  to what Chinese mainland users preferred. The style is Heiti, which is like
>  ttf-wqy-zenhei and is essentially a sans-serif style. There are 16,502 Hanzi
>  in the CJK basic block, which is the union of GB2312 and Big5 charsets.
>  Because this font is targeted at memory-limited devices, there are
>  15,524 Han glyphs were composed by references, the rest are stand-alone
>  outline glyphs which can not be decomposed into components.
>  It contains no embedded bitmaps, but the outline quality is very good.
>  I believe most zh_* users will be very happy if this font will be used
>  as desktop font (the current zh_* font on Fedora is wqy-bitmapfont
>  which is also using the Han-unification forms). It may be a little bit
>  difficult for Japanese and Korean users though. 
[…]

>  Just a few more words about default Chinese font settings.
>  
>  There seem be a distinct dividing line among the Chinese
>  users for their font preferences: on one side of the line,
>  they really prefer sharp-looking bitmaped Chinese glyphs, while,
>  the other side have strong preference in the smooth-looking of
>  AA-ed vector rendering. The contradictions between these two
>  groups can be constantly felt in almost all Chinese Linux
>  forums. 
So, would the attached fontconfig file be ok according to your knowledge
of Chinese users? (installed as 65-google-droid-sans-fallback.conf)

I'm quite happy to learn that even among Chinese people prefer vector
fonts. I prefer them myself, and IMHO they are the future anyway :p.

However, to keep everyone happy, can you share with us what your
declinaison of vector/bitmap fontconfig rules would be for Droid? It's
quite easy for me to put two different files in the rpm, with only one
linked in /etc/conf.d/ by default.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot