Fedora core Chinese font support

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Mon Oct 9 11:59:00 UTC 2006


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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