Fedora core Chinese font support
Leo
sdl.web at gmail.com
Mon Oct 9 15:38:26 UTC 2006
On Mon, 09/10/06 12:59 +0100, Dan Williams wrote:
[snip]
>
> 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
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