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.
Using Ubuntu as an example, when Ubuntu 8.04 set wqy-zenhei as the default Chinese Sans font, it has the embedded bitmaps turned on by default. There was a strong rally against using the embedded bitmaps, because they like the vector form of ZenHei. I have to put instructions on our front page to tell people how to turn off the bitmaps. After a 400-participant survey, somebody proved that vector-preferred users are about 3:1 to the bitmap ones http://forum.ubuntu.org.cn/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=120639 (in Chinese) So, in 8.10, the bitmaps in ZenHei was turned off. Now, the CN forum of ubuntu is flooded with complains of losing their "sharp-looking glyphs", and asking how to turn on the bitmaps. I had to make another sticky post at our website to teach people how to turn it back on.
What I want to say is, these two groups both have significant number of supporters. As the current settings on Fedora is the bitmap way. I would anticipate some disturbance among the users for the font style switching from one to the other if we decide to use Droid(or derivatives) as the default. Hope the font-selector tool can be released timely to help sorting out the font preference chaos: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/font-selector
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Hi,
As you probably know Google has released a Droid font set as part of its Android platform. While the font licensing is being clarified https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472635 (Fedora packaging blocker) I've taken a quick look at the font files.
The set includes a huge "Droid Sans Fallback" font with CJK coverage. Could the CJK folks take a look at it and tell me how this font should be treated: as Japanese-only, Chinese-only, Korean-only before/after current CJK defaults, etc? Han unification means someone will probably not be happy about it.
I've uploaded preliminary droid packages there http://nim.fedorapeople.org/fontpackages/
so people can check them out.
Regards,
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