Fedora core Chinese font support

Leo sdl.web at gmail.com
Tue Oct 10 14:29:54 UTC 2006


On Tue, 10/10/06 14:13 +0100, John Thacker wrote:

> On 10/10/06, Leo <sdl.web at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 10/10/06 11:17 +0100, Yuan Yijun wrote:
>>
>> > 2006/10/9, Leo <sdl.web at gmail.com>:
>
>> >>
>> >> FZSongTi, 方正宋体, which is a commercial font.
>> >
>> >
>> > chinese fonts in fc6 has changed a lot from fc5, the look and feel has
>> > been improved so much that you have never seen in other distributions.
>> > please compare fc6 to novell again after fc6 released.
>>
>> I probably can do it for FC7. I have no plan to upgrade to FC6 since
>> I'm stuck with a lot of work at this time. But what on earth has
>> changed from FC6 to FC5 with respect to Chinese fonts? Is it the new
>> fontconfig or a new CJK font? Is it possible to backport those to FC5?
>
> Do you have the free Chinese fonts installed as well on FC5?  (I say
> Chinese because the Japanese fonts don't provide coverge of all hanzi
> that you'll need.)  Are you manually selecting FZSongTi instead of
> using the default provided Chinese fonts?
>

FZSongTi is with SuSE 9.3. I didn't use it in FC5. But I have copied
simsun.ttc and the free font "WenQuanYi" to fonts dir.

> The configuration for fontconfig by default turns hinting on but
> overrides the hinting selection and turns it off for the
> Fedora-provided CJK and Indic fonts.  (See
> /etc/fonts/conf.d/25-no-hint-fedora.conf )  However, it doesn't list
> every CJK and Indic font out there, and it doesn't automatically turn
> off hinting for any font which supports a CJK language.  (I'm not
> totally sure that that's possible or desired.)
>
> I suspect that's your problem.  It is possible to edit that file to
> turn off hinting for FZSongTi.  Manually editing the file is not
> really a good end-user solution, I agree, but neither necessarily is
> having the default config file contain every CJK font that
> users might install.
>
> John Thacker

It turns out Chinese characters are displayed badly only in a few apps
such as gnome-terminal and inkscape etc.

-- 
Leo




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