Fedora core Chinese font support

[Leo]

On Mon, 09/10/06 12:59 +0100, Dan Williams wrote:

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>
> Those appear to be bitmap fonts; can you tell us exactly which font that
> is?  In any case, bitmap fonts should DIE DIE DIE.

FZSongTi, 方正宋体, which is a commercial font.

>
>> 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.

Turning off aa will make English font look bad.

>
> Dan
>

Tweaking font needs some expertise on fontconfig, xft and
freetype. It's not a task for end users. I hope fedora come with a
better Chinese font support.

-- 
Leo