Fedora core Chinese font support

[John Thacker]

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?

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