https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432882

--- Comment #12 from Tyson Tan <tyson...@tysontan.com> ---
(In reply to Shinjo Park from comment #11)
> (In reply to Shinjo Park from comment #10)
> > Created attachment 139545 [details]
> > Korean default font
> 
> Not mentioned in comment #7 is Korean font, which is also different from
> Chinese/Japanese. Krita is using Gulim/굴림 for all UI elements on Windows,
> which used to be default up till Windows XP, replaced by Malgun Gothic/맑은 고딕
> starting from Windows Vista. The desktop and taskbar contains text in Malgun
> Gothic, looking differently from what is inside Krita. The glyph inside the
> menu bar is coming from the bitmap of Gulim 8pt, which is considered smaller
> than what Korean users expected even back then (Gulim 9pt). Docker texts are
> even smaller than that.
> 
> I don't have Mac by myself, so I am not 100% sure of the font situation
> there.
> 
> (In reply to Tyson Tan from comment #8)
> > 4) Let the translator to assign a default font list and font sizes.
> 
> As far as I know Qt's default fonts are suboptimal for CJK. In fact,
> Telegram Desktop had the similar problem regarding font selection. They
> maintain their own patches for Qt 5.12/5.15.
> 
> Github issue: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/7773
> Patch itself:
> https://github.com/desktop-app/patches/blob/master/qtbase_5_15_2/0005-fix-
> cjk-font-fallback.patch

Sorry for not mentioning Korean in my comments -- I can only read Chinese and
Japanese. Thank you for filling in the missing piece.

One common thing about Krita's default fonts for CJK language: TOO SMALL. XD

The Qt patch you mentioned can be really valuable. Thanks!

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