After installing fonts-noto-cjk 1:1.004+repack2-1~ubuntu1, Chrome starts to render CJK characters with Noto Sans CJK [JP] Regular in pages that does not define lang="ja"/lang="zh"/lang="zh-TW"/lang="zh-CN"... i.e. When the page does not specifies lang="??" in HTML, Chrome will choose Noto Sans CJK JP series to render CJK characters as fallback. This may be ideal for Japanese users, but I personally would like Noto Sans SC as fallback, as a SC user. For example, in this page: https://www.google.com/?ion=1&espv=2#q=%E9%97%A8 I want "门" in SC instead of JP. Is there any way the user can manually set the CJK fallback font(in Chrome, or in somewhere else)? If such setting exists, JP users can set Noto JP as default fallback, TC users can set Noto TC as default fallback, and so can SC, and this issue can then be treated as fixed.
And finally, if this can be done, it can be expected that this time, ALL CJK characters in a page without lang="??" which is a mixture of CJK fonts(http://www.gamer.com.tw for example) will be rendered in Noto Sans CJK SC. This is still not perfect. The ultimate ideal form is that Chrome will "intelligently" render Japanese(Hiragana, Katakana, and Japanese Kanji) in Noto JP, render Traditional Chinese in Noto TC, and Simplified Chinese in Noto SC, even in non-lang="??"-specified pages. This is one of the perfect forms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Multilingual_support_(East_Asian) Thanks to that each CJK paragraph is explicitly specified with lang="??" in HTML, this is fulfilled. But in normal pages, uh, I guess this is Mission Impossible... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-noto-cjk in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575555 Title: Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: [Impact] Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK font weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult to read, and thus gives a bad user experience. The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk installs 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super" file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue. Note: It has been fixed in yakkety via autosync, so "backporting" yakkety (as an SRU) instead of uploading from the PPA is an option. [Test Case] To reproduce the bug: * Install Chromium or Google Chrome. * Go to <http://www.gamer.com.tw> and notice the very thin characters. * Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference. [Regression Potential] This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph coverage, so the the regression risk should be low. [Original description] The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall back on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the package and then manually download the font from Google website and install it to make the regular weight available Release: 16.04 LTS Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1 Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-noto-cjk/+bug/1575555/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
