Package: fontconfig-config Version: 2.8.0-2.1 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: Qianqian Fang <fa...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>, zhengpeng-...@ubuntu.com
Here is a request to please Japanese and Chinese without fight for the default preferences :-) One of the most annoying national preference collision happens at U+3001 IDEOGRAPHIC COMMA U+3002 IDEOGRAPHIC FULL STOP Almost every line has these. zh_TW put them center, while ja and zh_CN put them at corner. So depending on which style you like, font choice order should be different. But for better codepoint coverage, we want many packages to be loaded. Currently, 60-latin.conf is in a sane situation. But 65-nonlatin.conf is a mess. Even if we order them, there is no single solution to meet all tastes. Realistic solution is to make sorted and nice looking 65-nonlatin.conf per language association. Some font claims multiple coverage but their core identities can be identified easily using U+3001 and U+3002 and few other glyph choice as listed in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification Let's make followings in /etc/fonts/conf.avail/ from 65-nonlatin.conf and 65-fonts-persian.conf each by their association: 68-nonlatin-ja.conf (Japanese centered) 68-nonlatin-ko.conf (Korean centered) 68-nonlatin-zh_CN.conf 68-nonlatin-zh_TW.conf 68-nonlatin-persian.conf In default, each /etc/fonts/conf.d/68-nonlatin-*.conf links to corresponding /etc/fonts/conf.avail/68-nonlatin-*.conf. Since these needs to be ordered between 60-latin.conf and 69-unifont.conf, 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 are the choice. The package should provide simple shell program to change this linking. $ sudo fontconfig-locale-choice ja persian zh_CN zh_TW This should make links from 62-nonlatin-ja.conf 68-nonlatin-ko.conf (default number = 68) 64-nonlatin-zh_CN.conf 65-nonlatin-zh_TW.conf 63-nonlatin-persian.conf (Any overflowing choice can be bunched and left at 68, the lowest priority.) For Debian installation, if they are run under applicable locale, default choice should be made: ja_JP.UTF-8 -> fontconfig-locale-choice ja zh_CN.UTF-8 -> fontconfig-locale-choice zh_CN ... Otherwise, there should be priority medium or low dialogue for dpkg-reconfigure. This ensures consistent choice. Issues like http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20911 and many bug reports there may be solved by this. I noticed many font packages installs their font in higher position. This uncoordinated fight is not good. There should be some coordinated system for default. Oh, I also see some Chinese fonts are declared for both San-serif and serif. This should be stopped if we make nice updated list. HEI = GOTHIC = SAN-SERIF SO = MING = MINCHO = SERIF Do you agree on this idea as whole? Should we make such script and patch? Or will you do it? Regards, Osamu PS: If you know where to find method to write fonfconfig rule limited to the particular codepoints, let me know. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages fontconfig-config depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy ii gsfonts-x11 0.21 Make Ghostscript fonts available t ii ttf-dejavu-core 2.31-1 Vera font family derivate with add ii ttf-freefont 20090104-7 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True ii ucf 3.0025+nmu1 Update Configuration File: preserv fontconfig-config recommends no packages. fontconfig-config suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * fontconfig/subpixel_rendering: Automatic * fontconfig/enable_bitmaps: false * fontconfig/hinting_type: Native -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
