Fedora core Chinese font support

[Akira TAGOH]

>>>>> On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:38:26 +0100,
>>>>> "Leo" == Leo <sdl.web at gmail.com> wrote:

Leo> On Mon, 09/10/06 12:59 +0100, Dan Williams wrote:
Leo> [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.

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

Our default font (uming.ttf but not ukai.ttf)
should has bitmap fonts in it. the problem is in a
commercial font you use. if they don't have, outlined font
is just used. that's it.

>> 
>>> 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.

Leo> Turning off aa will make English font look bad.

>> 
>> Dan
>> 

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

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Akira TAGOH
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